Lou Graham

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Lou Graham
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name	Louis Krebs Graham
Born	(1938-01-07) January 7, 1938 Nashville, Tennessee
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	Memphis State University
Turned professional	1964
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour Champions Tour
Professional wins	7
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	6
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament	T6: 1977
U.S. Open	Won: 1975
The Open Championship	T47: 1975
PGA Championship	T6: 1977

Louis Krebs Graham (born January 7, 1938) is an American professional golfer who won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open. Most of his wins were in the 1970s.

Lou Graham was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He started playing golf when he was seven years old. He attended Nashville's Father Ryan High School, and then Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played on the golf team for three years. Later, Graham was drafted into the U.S. Army. While in the Army, Graham served as a member of the Old Guard — Company E of the Third U.S. Infantry Regiment — the ceremonial Honor Guard that guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. During his Army career, he made the Army golf team that won the Inter-Service championship in 1961.

Graham joined the PGA Tour in September 1964. His first win was at the Minnesota Golf Classic at Hazeltine National Golf Club in 1967 during his third full year on the tour. Graham won again in 1972 at the Liggett Myers Open, followed by the U.S. Open in 1975. Graham had only three wins in fifteen years, and then in 1979, he won three more times in the space of eleven weeks. For this achievement, he won Golf Digest's 1979 Comeback of the Year award.^[1]

Graham played on three Ryder Cup teams (1973, 1975, 1977), and was a member of the victorious 1975 World Cup Team. He was inducted as a charter member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in 1992. During his career, he won over $1.4 million on the PGA Tour and over $600,000 in Senior Tour career earnings.^[1]

Graham's greatest success in major championships has been at the U.S. Open. He won in 1975 at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois beating John Mahaffey by two strokes in a playoff. In 1977, he finished 2nd – losing by one stroke to Hubert Green at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also had a previous T-3 finish at the Open in 1974.^[2] On the Senior Tour (now known as the Champions Tour), his best finish was a T-3 at the AT&T Championship in 1990.

Professional wins (7)

PGA Tour wins (6)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Jul 30, 1967	Minnesota Golf Classic	−2 (76-68-70-72=286)	1 stroke	Bob Verwey
2	Aug 27, 1972	Liggett & Myers Open	−3 (71-74-70-70=285)	Playoff	David Graham, Hale Irwin, Larry Ziegler
3	Jun 23, 1975	U.S. Open	+3 (74-72-68-73=287)	Playoff	John Mahaffey
4	Jul 22, 1979	IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic	−11 (68-70-71-64=273)	Playoff	Bobby Wadkins
5	Sep 9, 1979	American Optical Classic	−9 (68-67-71-69=275)	1 stroke	Ben Crenshaw
6	Oct 7, 1979	San Antonio Texas Open	−12 (69-64-69-66=268)	1 stroke	Eddie Pearce, Bill Rogers, Doug Tewell

PGA Tour playoff record (3–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1971	Greater Hartford Open	George Archer, J. C. Snead	Archer won with birdie on first extra hole
2	1972	Liggett & Myers Open	David Graham, Hale Irwin, Larry Ziegler	Won with birdie on third extra hole D. Graham and Ziegler eliminated with par on first hole
3	1975	U.S. Open	John Mahaffey	Won 18-hole playoff (Graham:71, Mahaffey:73)
4	1979	IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic	Bobby Wadkins	Won with birdie on first extra hole

Major championship is shown in bold.

Other wins (1)

1975 World Cup (with Johnny Miller)

Major championships

Wins (1)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner-up
1975	U.S. Open	4 shot deficit	+3 (74-72-68-73=287)	Playoff¹	John Mahaffey

¹Defeated Mahaffey in an 18-hole playoff – Graham 71 (E), Mahaffey 73 (+2).

Results timeline

Tournament	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
U.S. Open	CUT	CUT	23	CUT	T28	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T8	CUT

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Masters Tournament	DNP	CUT	DNP	T17	CUT	T40	T12	T6	CUT	T23
U.S. Open	T46	T37	T19	CUT	T3	1	T28	2	T35	T25
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T47	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	T22	CUT	T33	T30	T48	T54	T22	T6	CUT	T10

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985
Masters Tournament	T26	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	T51	CUT	T39	T50	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	CUT	DNP	T42	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	0	1	4	10	6
U.S. Open	1	1	1	3	3	6	21	14
The Open Championship	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
PGA Championship	0	0	0	0	3	5	15	10
Totals	1	1	1	3	7	15	47	31

Most consecutive cuts made – 11 (1974 U.S. Open – 1977 U.S. Open)
Longest streak of top-10s – 3 (1977 Masters – 1977 PGA)

U.S. national team appearances

Professional

Ryder Cup: 1973 (winners), 1975 (winners), 1977 (winners)
World Cup: 1975 (winners)

References

1 2 "Lou Graham - Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame". Tennessee Golf Association.
↑ "Golf Major Championships".

External links

Lou Graham at the PGA Tour official site

U.S. Open champions

1895 Horace Rawlins 1896 James Foulis 1897 Joe Lloyd 1898 Fred Herd 1899 Willie Smith 1900 Harry Vardon 1901 Willie Anderson† 1902 Laurie Auchterlonie 1903 Willie Anderson† 1904 Willie Anderson 1905 Willie Anderson 1906 Alex Smith 1907 Alec Ross 1908 Fred McLeod† 1909 George Sargent 1910 Alex Smith† 1911 John McDermott† 1912 John McDermott 1913 Francis Ouimet#† 1914‡ Walter Hagen 1915 Jerome Travers# 1916 Chick Evans# 1917–18 Cancelled due to World War I 1919 Walter Hagen† 1920 Ted Ray 1921‡ Jim Barnes 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Bobby Jones#† 1924 Cyril Walker 1925 Willie Macfarlane† 1926 Bobby Jones# 1927 Tommy Armour† 1928 Johnny Farrell† 1929 Bobby Jones#† 1930 Bobby Jones# 1931 Billy Burke† 1932 Gene Sarazen 1933 Johnny Goodman# 1934 Olin Dutra 1935 Sam Parks, Jr. 1936 Tony Manero 1937 Ralph Guldahl 1938 Ralph Guldahl 1939 Byron Nelson† 1940 Lawson Little† 1941 Craig Wood 1942–45 Cancelled due to World War II 1946 Lloyd Mangrum† 1947 Lew Worsham† 1948 Ben Hogan 1949 Cary Middlecoff 1950 Ben Hogan† 1951 Ben Hogan 1952 Julius Boros 1953‡ Ben Hogan 1954 Ed Furgol 1955 Jack Fleck† 1956 Cary Middlecoff 1957 Dick Mayer† 1958 Tommy Bolt 1959 Billy Casper 1960 Arnold Palmer 1961 Gene Littler 1962 Jack Nicklaus† 1963 Julius Boros† 1964 Ken Venturi 1965 Gary Player† 1966 Billy Casper† 1967 Jack Nicklaus 1968 Lee Trevino 1969 Orville Moody 1970‡ Tony Jacklin 1971 Lee Trevino† 1972 Jack Nicklaus 1973 Johnny Miller 1974 Hale Irwin 1975 Lou Graham† 1976 Jerry Pate 1977 Hubert Green 1978 Andy North 1979 Hale Irwin 1980 Jack Nicklaus 1981 David Graham 1982 Tom Watson 1983 Larry Nelson 1984 Fuzzy Zoeller† 1985 Andy North 1986 Raymond Floyd 1987 Scott Simpson 1988 Curtis Strange† 1989 Curtis Strange 1990 Hale Irwin† 1991 Payne Stewart† 1992 Tom Kite 1993 Lee Janzen 1994 Ernie Els† 1995 Corey Pavin 1996 Steve Jones 1997 Ernie Els 1998 Lee Janzen 1999 Payne Stewart 2000‡ Tiger Woods 2001 Retief Goosen† 2002‡ Tiger Woods 2003 Jim Furyk 2004 Retief Goosen 2005 Michael Campbell 2006 Geoff Ogilvy 2007 Ángel Cabrera 2008 Tiger Woods† 2009 Lucas Glover 2010 Graeme McDowell 2011‡ Rory McIlroy 2012 Webb Simpson 2013 Justin Rose 2014‡ Martin Kaymer 2015 Jordan Spieth 2016 Dustin Johnson

† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; # indicates the event was won by an amateur

Lou Graham in the Ryder Cup

United States Ryder Cup team – 1973

Tommy Aaron Homero Blancas Gay Brewer Billy Casper Dave Hill Lou Graham Jack Nicklaus Arnold Palmer Chi-Chi Rodríguez J. C. Snead Lee Trevino Tom Weiskopf Jack Burke Jr. (non-playing captain)

Won: 19 – 13

United States Ryder Cup team – 1975

Billy Casper Raymond Floyd Al Geiberger Lou Graham Hale Irwin Gene Littler Johnny Miller Bob Murphy Jack Nicklaus J. C. Snead Lee Trevino Tom Weiskopf Arnold Palmer (non-playing captain)

Won: 21 – 11

United States Ryder Cup team – 1977

Raymond Floyd Lou Graham Hubert Green Dave Hill Hale Irwin Don January Jerry McGee Jack Nicklaus Ed Sneed Dave Stockton Lanny Wadkins Tom Watson Dow Finsterwald (non-playing captain)

Won: 12.5 – 7.5

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