Hubert Green

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**Hubert Green**
Personal Information
Birth	December 28, 1946 (1946-12-28) (age 61) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg/12 st)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
College	Florida State University
Career
Turned Pro	1969
Current tour	Champions Tour
Professional wins	28 (PGA Tour: 19, Champions Tour: 4, Other: 5)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 2
Masters	T2: 1978
U.S. Open	Won 1977
British Open	3rd: 1977
PGA Championship	Won 1985
Awards
World Golf Hall of Fame	2007

Hubert Myatt Green (born December 28, 1946) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous professional golf tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.

Green was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Florida State University in 1968 with a degree in marketing and turned pro in 1969. Green is among the top 33 all-time PGA Tour Winners with 19 victories during his 26 years on the PGA Tour. He won two major championships: the 1977 U.S. Open which was held at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the 1985 PGA Championship which was held at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. He played on three Ryder Cup teams: 1977, 1979, and 1985.

In his second season on the Senior PGA Tour in 1998, Green won the Bruno's Memorial Classic in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He currently has four career victories on the Champions Tour, which was known as the Senior PGA Tour until 2002.

Green is active in golf course design having designed the TPC at Southwind, the site for the PGA Tour's St. Jude Classic. He also designed Greystone, the site of his victory in the Bruno's Classic and Reynolds Plantation in Georgia.

In the spring of 2003, Green was diagnosed with throat cancer after his dentist noticed an unusual swelling on the back of his tongue after a routine cleaning and referred him to a medical specialist for evaluation. Green underwent a very difficult and painful regimen of radiation and chemotherapy treatments during the summer of 2003. By the end of 2003, however, his cancer was in remission; his weight crept up to 165 pounds from a low of 143 pounds.^[1]

In April 2007, Green was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Veteran's category; he was inducted in November 2007.

1 Amateur wins
2 Professional wins (28)
3 Major Championships
- 3.1 Wins (2)
- 3.2 Results timeline
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

1966 Southern Amateur
1969 Southern Amateur

[edit] Professional wins (28)

[edit] PGA Tour wins (19)

1971 (1) Houston Champions International
1973 (2) Tallahassee Open, B.C. Open
1974 (4) Bob Hope Desert Classic, Greater Jacksonville Open, IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic, Walt Disney World National Team Championship (with Mac McLendon)
1975 (1) Southern Open
1976 (3) Doral-Eastern Open, Greater Jacksonville Open, Sea Pines Heritage Classic
1977 (1) U.S. Open
1978 (2) Hawaiian Open, Heritage Classic
1979 (2) Hawaiian Open, First NBC New Orleans Open
1981 (1) Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open
1984 (1) Southern Open
1985 (1) PGA Championship

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (4)

1975 Dunlop Phoenix (Japan Golf Tour)
1977 Irish Open (European Tour)
1980 Jerry Ford Invitational (co-winner)
1985 Casio World Open (Japan Golf Tour)

[edit] Champions Tour wins (4)

[edit] Other senior wins (1)

1999 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Gil Morgan)

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner Up
1977	U.S Open	-2 (69-67-72-70=278)	1 stroke	Lou Graham
1985	PGA Championship	-6 (67-69-70-72=278)	2 strokes	Lee Trevino

[edit] Results timeline

Tournament	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	CUT	DNP	DNP	T22	T14	T9	T8	T19	T8	T2	T10
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	T55	CUT	T26	T18	6	1	CUT	24
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	4	T32	T5	3	T29	T41
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	T16	DQ	T3	DNP	T30	T62	T26	T16

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
The Masters	4	T11	T43	DNP	DNP	CUT	T36	T35	T19	T34
U.S. Open	T32	T37	CUT	T60	T30	CUT	T55	CUT	CUT	T9
The Open Championship	T6	T23	CUT	T19	CUT	DNP	WD	DNP	T52	DNP
PGA Championship	T68	T27	CUT	CUT	T14	1	T41	T56	WD	66

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
The Masters	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	CUT	CUT	T51	CUT	CUT	CUT

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