- Tom Watson
Thomas Sturges "Tom" Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American golfer on the Champions Tour, who still occasionally competes in PGA Tour events. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the number one player in the world, according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings, from 1978 through 1982, …
- Jack Nicklaus
As the administrative assistant for professional golfer and golf course designer Jack Nicklaus , Stevens had a perfect way to help. She collected and donated autographed memorabilia to the Hero Flight project from Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player .
- Jay Haas
Jay Dean Haas (born December 2, 1953) is an American golfer. Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that "Golf World" has called "the greatest college team of all time". He won the individual championship in 1975. He turned professional in 1976. Haas has had a solid career on the PGA Tour, winning nine times between 1978 and 1993.
- David Edwards
David Wayne Edwards (born April 18, 1956) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour from 1979-2005. He is the younger brother of former PGA Tour professional, Danny Edwards. Edwards was born in Neosho, Missouri. He attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and was a distinguished member of the golf team. Edwards was the individual medalist his senior year at the 1978 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships, …
- Bart Bryant
Bart Bryant (born November 18, 1962) is an American golfer. Bryant was born in Gatesville, Texas. His career has been hampered by injury and he didn't win on the PGA Tour until the 2004 Valero Texas Open. At 41 he was the oldest first time winner on the tour in nine years. In 2005 he won the Memorial Tournament and the season ending Tour Championship to finish ninth on the money list with earnings of $3,249,136, …
- Hale Irwin
Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American golfer. He is the uncle of Heath Irwin. Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1967, where he was a two-time All-Big Eight defensive back, as well as an academic All-American in football. He won the individual NCAA Division I Championship in golf in 1967 and turned professional the following year.
- Tom Kite
Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. (born December 9, 1949) is an American golfer. Kite was born in Austin, Texas. He began playing golf at age 6 and won his first tournament at age 11. Kite attended the University of Texas on a golf scholarship and was coached by Harvey Penick. He turned professional in 1972 and has been a consistent money winner ever since. Known for his innovation, he was the first to add a third wedge to his bag, …
- Fred Funk
Frederick "Fred" Funk (born June 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer. Funk was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 with a degree in law enforcement. He turned professional in 1981 but worked as a golf coach at his alma mater from 1982 to 1988, not becoming a member of the PGA Tour until 1989. He picked up a number of wins from 1992 onwards, and without quite becoming one of the top stars on the tour, …
- Craig Stadler
Craig Robert Stadler (born June 2, 1953) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Stadler was born in San Diego, California and attended La Jolla High School. He displayed a talent for golf early in life. He won the 1973 U.S. Amateur, while attending the University of Southern California where he became a two-time All-American. He turned professional in 1975.
- Eduardo Romero
Eduardo Romero is an Argentine professional golfer. Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age. He has played extensively in Latin America on the Tour de las Americas and its predecessor the "South American Tour", but his international profile is mainly based on his success on the more prestigious European Tour and in senior golf in the United States and Europe. He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Gil Morgan
Gilmer Bryan Morgan II, OD (born September 25 1946) is an American professional golfer. Morgan was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He graduated from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma in 1968. In 1972, Gil earned a Doctor of Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee before turning professional later that year. He is a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.
- Jim Thorpe
Jimmy Lee Thorpe (born February 1, 1949) is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the Champions Tour. Thorpe was born in Roxboro, North Carolina, the ninth of the twelve children of a fairway superintendent. He attended Morgan State University before turning pro in 1972. He won three times on the PGA Tour in the mid 1980s. He has surpassed this at senior level by winning over ten times, …
- Scott Hoch
Scott Mabon Hoch (born November 24, 1955) is an American golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002. Hoch was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest University in 1978, and was part of a winning Eisenhower Trophy team before turning pro in 1979. He has won several prestigious tournaments, including the Western Open, the Ford Championship at Doral, the Heineken Dutch Open and the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
- Scott Simpson
Scott William Simpson (born September 17, 1955) is an American golfer. Simpson was born in San Diego, California. He attended the University of Southern California, where he was two-time medalist at the NCAA Championship (1976, 1977). He turned professional in 1977 and graduated in 1978. He played on the PGA Tour from 1979, and won seven PGA Tour events between 1980 and 1998. The highlight of Simpson's career was his victory at the 1987 U.S. Open Championship, …
- Denis Watson
Denis Leslie Watson (born 18 October 1955) is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe who was joint winningmost player on the PGA Tour in 1984. Watson was born and educated in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). He was Rhodesian Sportsman of the Year in 1975, but he represented South Africa in the World Series of Golf in 1980 and 1982 - sporting connections between Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa were blurred, …
- Brad Bryant
Bradley Dub Bryant (born December 11, 1954) is an American golfer. Bryant was born in Amarillo, Texas. He attended the University of New Mexico and turned professional in 1976. His only win on the PGA Tour came at the age of forty at the 1995 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic. He now plays on the Champions Tour on which he won for the first time at the 2006 Toshiba Classic and followed up later the same year by winning the Regions Charity Classic.
- Lanny Wadkins
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins, Jr. (born December 5, 1949) is an American golfer. Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He attended Wake Forest University. He won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1970 and turned professional in 1971. His first win on the PGA Tour arrived quickly at the 1972 Sahara Invitational in Las Vegas and he was later voted 1972 PGA Rookie of the Year. Two more wins followed in 1973 before his form dipped for three years.
- Bobby Wadkins
Robert Edwin Wadkins (born July 26, 1951) is an American golfer. Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He turned pro in 1973. He never won on the PGA Tour despite six runner-up finishes, but he did win on the European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. Since turning fifty he has played on the Champions Tour, where he has won four times, including one senior major, the 2006 Senior Players Championship. Bobby Wadkins elder brother Lanny won 21 times on the PGA Tour, …
- D. A. Weibring
Donald Albert "D.A." Weibring, Jr. (born May 25, 1953) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments including several on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Weibring was born in Quincy, Illinois. His father started him playing golf at a young age. Weibring graduated from Illinois State University in 1975 and turned pro that same year. Weibring won five PGA Tour events. His first was in 1979 at Quad Cities - an event he would win twice.
- Tom Purtzer
Thomas Warren Purtzer (born December 5, 1951) is an American professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Purtzer was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended Arizona State University in Tempe, where he was a member of the school's golf team. He graduated in 1973 and turned pro. He followed in the footsteps of his older brother, Paul, who also played golf for Arizona State and played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- Leonard Thompson
Leonard Stephen Thompson (born January 1, 1947) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour. Thompson was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina. He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and was a member of the golf team. He was a teammate of future fellow PGA Tour players Joe Inman and Lanny Wadkins. He graduated in 1969 and turned pro in 1971.
- Peter Jacobsen
Peter Erling Jacobsen (born March 4, 1954) is an American professional golfer.
- Andy Bean
Thomas Andrew "Andy" Bean (born March 13, 1953) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the amateur and professional level including 11 PGA Tour victories. Bean was born in LaFayette, Georgia and was raised in Jekyll Island, Georgia, where his father was associated with a golf course. His family moved to Lakeland, Florida when he was 15, and his father bought a golf course there. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, …
- Danny Edwards
Danny Edwards (born June 14, 1951) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour. He is the older brother of former PGA Tour player David Edwards. Edwards was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. He started playing golf at age 14 and four years later won the Oklahoma State High School Championship. He attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and was a member of the golf team.
- Brett Quigley
Brett Quigley (born August 18, 1969) is an American golfer. Quigley was born in Fort Devens, Massachusetts. He is the nephew of PGA Tour and Champions Tour golfer Dana Quigley. He won the 1987 U.S. Junior Amateur and attended the University of South Carolina, where he was twice an Academic All-American, before turning professional in 1991. Quigley has spent his career bouncing between the PGA Tour and the second tier Nationwide Tour.
- Curtis Strange
Curtis Strange won a total of 17 times on the PGA TOUR. He hasn't yet gotten a victory on the Champions Tour, but he still finished 44th on the 2006 Charles Schwab Cup points list after placing in the top 25 in over a third of his appearances.
- Allen Doyle
Allen Michael Doyle (born July 26, 1948) is an American golfer who is a leading player on the Champions Tour, the world's richest tour for senior golfers. Doyle was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and raised in the Boston suburb of Norwood, Massachusetts. He attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Norwich University in Vermont. Exceptionally for a future leading professional, and despite winning numerous amateur titles, …
- Jerry Pate
Jerome "Jerry" Kendrick Pate (born September 16, 1953) is an American golfer. Jerry Pate was born in Macon, Georgia. He later attended the University of Alabama and had a distinguished amateur career. He won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1974 and the following year he was a member of victorious U.S. teams at the Walker Cup and the Eisenhower Trophy. He was also the low amateur at the 1975 U.S. Open.
- Bob Gilder
Robert Bryan Gilder (born December 31, 1950) is an American professional golfer. He won six tournaments in his PGA Tour career and currently plays on the Champions Tour where he has nine wins. Gilder was born in Corvallis, Oregon and attended Corvallis High School. He later attended Arizona State University and walked on to the golf team there, later becoming the 1973 Western Athletic Conference individual golf champion.
- Keith Fergus
Keith Carlton Fergus (born March 3, 1954) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, the Nationwide Tour and the Champions Tour. Fergus was born in Temple, Texas. He started playing golf at age 8. In high school, he played football and basketball but enjoyed practicing golf more than the other sports. He attended and was a member of the golf team at the University of Houston, …
- Morris Hatalsky
Morris Hatalsky (born November 10, 1951) is an American golfer. Hatalsky was born in San Diego, California. As an amateur he won the 1968 Mexico National Junior Championship. He attended U.S. International University (now Alliant International University) and Arizona State University and turned professional in 1973. He qualified for the PGA Tour at the 1976 Qualifying School and won four times on Tour between 1981 and 1990.
- Tom Jenkins
Thomas Wayne Jenkins (born December 14, 1947) is an American golfer. Jenkins was born in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Houston, where he was a member of the winning 1970 NCAA Division I golf team. He graduated in 1971 and turned professional. His only PGA Tour victory was the 1975 IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic, but he has been relatively more successful as a senior, with seven wins on the Champions Tour.
- Bruce Lietzke
Bruce Alan Lietzke (born July 18, 1951) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Lietzke was born in Kansas City. He moved to Beaumont, Texas with his parents in 1960 and lived there until 1977, graduating from Forest Park High School in 1969. He credits his older brother, Duane, for introducing him to the game of golf at age 5. He also credits Henry Homberg, a local Beaumont professional, …
- Bruce Fleisher
Bruce Lee Fleisher (born October 16 1948) is an American golfer. Fleisher was born in Union City, Tennessee. He attended Miami-Dade Junior College and Furman University. He won the U.S. Amateur in 1968 and turned professional in 1969. As a club professional, he won the PGA Professional National Championship once. His regular tournament career was modest, with one win on the PGA Tour, namely the 1991 New England Classic, and a few wins in minor tournaments.
- Larry Nelson
Larry Gene Nelson (born September 10, 1947) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Larry Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Ackworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta. He didn't play the game as a child - atypical for a successful professional golfer - in high school he focused on basketball and baseball.
- Dave Stockton
David Knapp Stockton (born November 2, 1941) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments on both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Stockton was born in San Bernardino, California. He attended University of Southern California and turned professional in 1964. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1967 Colonial National Invitation. His career year was 1974, when he won three times, but his two majors, both of which were PGA Championships, …
- Johnny Miller
John L. "Johnny" Miller (born April 29, 1947) is a former professional golfer on the PGA Tour who was born and raised in San Francisco. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s and is currently the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports, a position he has held since January 1990.
- Gary Koch
Gary Koch (born November 21, 1952) is an American professional golfer, sportscaster and golf course designer, who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour. Koch was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He won the Florida Open in 1969 as an amateur at the age of 16. He won the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1970.
- Tim Simpson
Tim Simpson (born May 6, 1956) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour, and currently plays on the Champions Tour. Simpson was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended high school at Woodward Academy where he was the Atlanta Junior Champion, Georgia Junior Champion and Westlake National Junior Champion. He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and was a member of the golf team.
- Vicente Fernandez
Vicente Fernández is an Argentine golfer who has won more than twenty professional tournaments around the world. Fernández was born in Corrientes, Argentina. He turned professional in 1964 and was a regular competitor on the European Tour from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s. He won four titles on the tour and had two top ten Order of Merit finishes, placing 6th in 1974 and 9th in 1975. He was sixteenth on the Order of Merit in 1992 at the age of 46.