| Gary McCord | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Gary Dennis McCord |
| Born | May 23, 1948 San Gabriel, California |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 14 st) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Residence | Paradise Valley, Arizona Edwards, Colorado |
| Career | |
| College | UC Riverside |
| Turned professional | 1971 |
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour Champions Tour |
| Professional wins | 3 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| Nationwide Tour | 1 |
| Champions Tour | 2 |
| Best results in Major Championships |
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| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| U.S. Open | DNP |
| The Open Championship | DNP |
| PGA Championship | T54: 1984 |
Gary Dennis McCord (born May 23, 1948) is an American professional golfer, commentator, author, and actor.
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McCord was born in San Gabriel, California and raised in southern California. He was a two-time Division II All-American at UC Riverside.[1] He won the NCAA Division II individual championship in 1970[2] and turned professional in 1971.
McCord's best two finishes on the PGA Tour were at the Greater Milwaukee Open, placing second in both 1975 and 1977. During his years on the PGA Tour, he had nearly two dozen top-10 finishes.
McCord was involved in an embarrassing episode during the 1984 FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis. When lining up a putt on the 15th green, McCord's pants split open, exposing his backside as he was not wearing any underwear. McCord wrapped a towel around his midriff, and went off to find a replacement pair of pants. Eventually Peter Jacobsen offered McCord his rain pants for a "fee" of $20. [3]
McCord credits golf pro Brad Britton for teaching him the ins and outs of the golf swing and especially the mental game.
At age 37 in 1986, McCord joined CBS Sports as a golf analyst, a capacity in which he still serves. He is noted for his outspokenness, a trait that has seen him barred from the CBS commentary team for The Masters. During the network's coverage of the 1994 Masters, he remarked that the 17th green was so fast that it seemed to be "bikini-waxed", and that "body bags" were located behind that green for players who missed their approach shots. Augusta National Golf Club, which organizes The Masters, used its influence with CBS to have him removed from The Masters commentary team. While McCord has continued to cover virtually all other golf events aired by CBS, he has yet to return to Augusta with the network.
Aside from his CBS commentary duties, McCord also plays on the Champions Tour. After turning 50 in May 1998, he won his first event at the Toshiba Senior Classic in March 1999, and also won that year's Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour Championship. Back in 1991, he won the Gateway Open on the Ben Hogan Tour, the second-tier tour in the U.S., now called the Nationwide Tour.
McCord has also written two books, Just a Range Ball in a Box of Titleists and Golf for Dummies. In 1996, he appeared as himself in the Kevin Costner movie Tin Cup. He and Peter Kostis are partners in the Kostis/McCord Learning Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is also a co-announcer on the EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour series[4] along with David Feherty.
McCord lives with his wife, Diane, in Paradise Valley, Arizona and Edwards, Colorado.
| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of Victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar 14, 1999 | Toshiba Senior Classic | -14 (65-68-69=204) | Playoff | Allen Doyle, Al Geiberger, John Jacobs |
| 2 | Nov 7, 1999 | Ingersoll-Rand Senior Tour Championship | -12 (71-74-64-67=276) | 1 stroke | Bruce Fleisher, Larry Nelson |