Gay Brewer

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Gay Brewer

Personal Information
Birth	March 19, 1932 Middletown, Ohio, U.S.
Death	August 31, 2007 (age 75) Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality	United States
College	None
Career
Professional wins	16 (PGA Tour: 11, Other: 3, Senior PGA Tour: 1, Other Senior: 1)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 1
Masters	Won 1967
U.S. Open	5th/T5: 1962, 1964
British Open	T6: 1968
PGA Championship	T7: 1972

Gay Robert Brewer, Jr. (March 19, 1932 – August 31, 2007) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and won the 1967 Masters Tournament.

Brewer was born in Middletown, Ohio, and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. As an amateur, Brewer won the Kentucky State Boys Golf Championship in three consecutive years from 1949–1951. In 1949, he also won the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, the most prestigious amateur event for golfers under the age of eighteen. In 1952, Brewer won the Southern Amateur.

Playing on the PGA Tour in 1965, Brewer won the Hawaiian Open, the first ever PGA event held in that state. At the 1966 Masters Tournament, he bogeyed the final hole to finish in a three-way tie for the lead after regulation play but ended up finishing third to Jack Nicklaus following an 18-hole playoff. He came back to win the prestigious event the next year, scoring a one stroke victory over lifelong friend Bobby Nichols in the first live television broadcast of a golf tournament from the United States to Europe. He went on to become a member of the 1967 Ryder Cup winning team. That same year at the Pensacola Open he set a PGA Tour record for the best 54-hole total on a par-72 course. His score of 25-under par is a record that still stands almost forty years later. In the direct opposite vein, at the 1969 Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic he tied the record for a player having the largest lead (six strokes) with 18 holes to play and then losing.

Brewer's 1966 performances earned him the Golf Digest's Most Improved Golfer award and his 1967 performances earned him the cover of the August 7th issue of Sports Illustrated magazine. He won the 1972 Canadian Open and was again part of the U.S. team that won the 1973 Ryder Cup. Overall, Brewer was victorious in eleven tour events during his career. He joined the Senior PGA Tour and won the 1984 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf tournament with Billy Casper and at age sixty-three he won the 1995 MasterCard Champions Championship.

In 2006, Brewer was voted to the University of Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame. In 2007, the golf course in Lexington where he learned to play was renamed the "Gay Brewer Jr. Course at Picadome."

Brewer died at his home in Lexington, Kentucky from lung cancer.^[1] At the time of his death, he was engaged to Alma Jo McGuire.^[2] He is interred at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington.

Contents 1 Amateur wins 2 Professional wins (16) 2.1 PGA Tour wins (11) 2.2 Other wins (3) 2.3 Senior PGA Tour wins (1) 2.4 Other senior wins (1) 3 Major Championships 3.1 Wins (1) 3.2 Results timeline 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Amateur wins

This list may be incomplete.

• 1949 Kentucky State Boys, U.S. Junior Amateur
• 1950 Kentucky State Boys
• 1951 Kentucky State Boys
• 1952 Southern Amateur

[edit] Professional wins (16)

[edit] PGA Tour wins (11)

• 1961 (3) Carling Open Invitational, Mobile Sertoma Open Invitational, West Palm Beach Open Invitational
• 1963 (1) Waco Turner Open
• 1965 (2) Greater Seattle Open Invitational, Hawaiian Open
• 1966 (1) Pensacola Open Invitational
• 1967 (2) Pensacola Open Invitational, The Masters
• 1972 (1) Canadian Open

(Missing one win?)

Major championship is shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (3)

This list is probably incomplete.

• 1951 Kentucky Open (as an amateur)
• 1965 PGA National Four-ball Championship (with Butch Baird)
• 1972 Pacific Masters

[edit] Senior PGA Tour wins (1)

• 1984 Citizens Union Senior Golf Classic

[edit] Other senior wins (1)

This list is probably incomplete.

• 1984 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Billy Casper)

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (1)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner Up
1967	The Masters	-8 (73-68-72-67=280)	1 stroke	Bobby Nichols

[edit] Results timeline

Tournament	1956	1957	1958	1959
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Masters	DNP	DNP	T11	CUT	T25	CUT	3	1	T35	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	CUT	5	CUT	T5	16	T36	T38	T9	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T6	15
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	CUT	T49	8	T28	27	T28	T20	T25

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	T31	CUT	DNP	T10	CUT	CUT	T23	CUT	T29	CUT
U.S. Open	7	T9	T25	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	26	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	T32	DNP	DNP	T10	38	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	DNP	T7	T64	T17	T33	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	CUT	T15	45	47	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	WD
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
The Masters	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	WD
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	2000	2001
The Masters	CUT	WD
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP

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

[edit] See also

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile on PGA Tour's official site
• Gay Brewer - Obituary and Tribute
• Gay Brewer Memorial at Find A Grave

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