Joe Jimenez, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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professional golfer
Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1926
Place of Birth: Kerrville, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 11-Aug-2007
Profession: golfer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Joe Jimenez
- Joe Jimenez (June 10, 1926 – August 11, 2007) was an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1978 PGA Seniors' Championship. Jimenez, who was of Mexican American descent, was born in Kerrville, Texas.
- He was a 1952 graduate of Trinity University with majors in biology and physical education.
- Jimenez played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
- He spent many years (1964–1991) as the club pro at the Jefferson City Country Club in Jefferson City, Missouri.
- His best showing in a major championship was a T-45 at the 1958 U.S.
- Open.
- The highlight of his career came when he won the 1978 PGA Seniors' Championship in a playoff over Manuel de la Torre and Joe Cheves with a birdie on the first extra hole of a sudden-death playoff. Jimenez holds or formerly held two of golf's "shoot below your age" records.
- At the 1991 GTE Northwest Classic, a Senior PGA Tour event, 65-year-old Jimenez became the youngest player to shoot his age or lower in a tournament on one of golf's major professional circuits by shooting a 63.
- This record was later broken when 61-year-old Walter Morgan shot a 60 in the AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship.
- Jimenez still holds the most-strokes-below-age (7) record.
- He shot a 62 during the 1995 Ameritech Senior Open at the age of 69.Since 1974, the Jefferson City Country Club has hosted a tournament in his honor, the Joe Jimenez Invitational He holds several Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions records. Jiminez died at his home in San Antonio, Texas from renal failure brought on by lung cancer.
- He was 81 years old.
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