Lou Graham

Louis Krebs Graham is an American professional golfer. Graham won six PGA Tour tournaments including the 1975 U.S. Open.

Early life

In 1938, Graham was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He started playing golf when he was seven years old. He attended Nashville's Father Ryan High School.
Graham attended Memphis State University. 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.

In September 1964, Graham joined the PGA Tour. His first win was at the 1967 Minnesota Golf Classic at Hazeltine National Golf Club during his third full year on the tour. In 1972, Graham won again 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, 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 second – 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, his best finish was a T-3 at the AT&T Championship in 1990.

In 1979, Graham won Golf Digest's Comeback of the Year award.
In 1992, he was inducted as a charter member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame.

No.

Date

Tournament

Winning score

Margin of
victory

Runner-up

Jul 30, 1967

−2

1 stroke

|1928

¹Defeated Mahaffey in an 18-hole playoff – Graham 71, Mahaffey 73.

CUT = missed the halfway cut

"T" indicates a tie for a place.

CUT = missed the halfway cut

WD = withdrew

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Professional