Pete Cooper (golfer)
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Pete Cooper (born December 31, 1914) played professional golf on the PGA Tour in the 1940s and 1950s; he was best known for winning the 1976 Senior PGA Championship.
In the ten-year span between 1949 and 1958, Cooper won five official PGA Tour events and had runner-up finishes in the 1950 Houston Open and the 1955 Tournament of Champions. His best finish in a major was T-4 at the 1953 U.S. Open.[1] Cooper helped a young Chi Chi Rodriguez improve enough to secure a spot on the PGA Tour.
Cooper won the 1976 Senior PGA Championship at the age of 61 with a four-day total of 283 over runner-up Fred Wampler. The tournament was held at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
Cooper lived in Lakeland, Florida, where he owned the Par 3 and Lone Palm Golf Club. He was also active in golf course design.
[edit] PGA Tour wins (5)
- 1949 St. Petersburg Open
- 1950 Miami International Four-Ball (with Claude Harmon)
- 1954 Virginia Beach Open
- 1957 St. Petersburg Open
- 1958 West Palm Beach Open Invitational
[edit] Other wins (5)
this list is probably incomplete
- 1953 Metropolitan Open
- 1954 Orlando Two-ball (with Patty Berg)
- 1956 Michigan Open
- 1959 Panama Open
- 1961 Panama Open
[edit] Senior wins (1)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Golf Major Championships. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
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