Danny Edwards

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1 Professional wins
- 1.1 PGA Tour (5)
- 1.2 International (1)
2 See also
3 Notes and References
4 External links

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. He won the 1972 and 1973 Big Eight Conference Championships, the 1972 North & South Amateur Championship, and was a three-time All-American. He played on the 1973 Walker Cup team and was the low amateur at the British Open the same year.^[1]

Edwards joined the PGA Tour in 1975, and won 5 official Tour events. His first victory came at the 1977 Greater Greensboro Open – the only event he would win twice. His best finish in a major was a T-5 at the 1974 British Open. Edwards would earn more than 3 dozen top-10 finishes in Tour events; his final win came at the 1985 Pensacola Open.

As Edwards moved past his prime PGA Tour years, he turned his attention to the business world. He formed a company in 1985 called Profile Sports in Garden Grove, California to serve as an executive golf school and corporate entertainment venue. He started a company in 1988, Royal Grip Inc. to manufacture a radically improved golf grip; and later put his entrepreneurial and mechanical skills to work by developing a tool that repairs ball marks, which he calls the GreenFix device. ^[2] He played some on the Nationwide Tour in his forties to prepare for the Champions Tour, which he joined upon reaching the age of 50 in 2001.

Edwards lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.