Lou Graham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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professional golfer
Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1938
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Profession: golfer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Lou Graham
- 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.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.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.
- On the Senior Tour (now known as the Champions Tour), his best finish was a T-3 at the AT&T Championship in 1990.
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