Doug Sanders

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Doug Sanders (born July 24, 1933) is an American professional golfer, who won 20 PGA Tour tournaments during his career. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia and currently resides in Houston, Texas. He is remembered for an exceptionally short, flat golf swing - a consequence, it appears, of a painful neck condition that radically restricted his movements.

He had 13 top-10 finishes in major championships, including four second place finishes: 1959 PGA Championship, 1961 U.S. Open, and 1966 and 1970 British Opens. He was well known for missing a short putt on the final hole that would have won him the 1970 British Open, before losing in a playoff the next day to Jack Nicklaus.

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[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament 1957 1958 1959
The Masters T31 DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP CUT DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP T2
Tournament 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
The Masters T29 T11 T33 T28 DNP T11 T4 T16 T12 T36
U.S. Open T46 T2 T11 T21 T32 T11 T8 T34 T37 DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP CUT 11 CUT T2 T18 34 DNP
PGA Championship T3 3 T15 T17 T28 T20 T6 T28 T8 CUT
Tournament 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976
The Masters DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP T37 CUT DNP DNP T45 DNP
The Open Championship 2 T9 4 T28 DNP DNP T28
PGA Championship T41 CUT T7 DNP DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Yellow background for top-10

[edit] PGA Tour wins (20)

[edit] See also

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