Profsnal golfer Gay Brewer, the 1967 Masters champn who won 10 tim on the PGA Tour, died Friday at his home Lexgton, Ky., after a fight wh lung ncer.
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- REMEMBERG GAY BREWER
- GAY BREWER, GOLFER WHO WON MASTERS 1967, DI AT 75
- 1967 MASTERS CHAMPN GAY BREWER REMEMBERED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
- GAY BREWER, 75; WON MASTERS ‘67, AFTER NEAR-VICTORY ’66
REMEMBERG GAY BREWER
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GAY BREWER, GOLFER WHO WON MASTERS 1967, DI AT 75
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1967 MASTERS CHAMPN GAY BREWER REMEMBERED ON HIS BIRTHDAY
1, 2007Gay Brewer, who won the 1967 Masters as well as 10 other PGA Tour events durg the 1960s and 1970s, died yterday at his home Lexgton, Ky. He even snned sectns of the book moments before steppg out onto the urse for his fal round of the 1967 Today, via APGay Robert Brewer Jr.
Gay Brewer played on the PGA Tour for a uple s, but for a few, brief years the mid-1960s he was among s top players not named Nickls, Palmer, Player or Casper. Full name: Gay Robert Brewer Jr.
GAY BREWER, 75; WON MASTERS ‘67, AFTER NEAR-VICTORY ’66
Gay Brewer won the 1967 Masters wh an excellent fal round that clud a back-ne birdie charge — one year after losg the Masters a playoff. "I still rell the day when I beme known not jt as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, wner of the 1967 Masters. After Brewer won 1967, Nickls said, "For Gay to e back the next year and w a Green Jacket was ftg for such a tremendo person and a darn good player.
Around that time, Gay was as good as there was. Peter Alliss once wrote that Gay Brewer had "one of the strangt swgs that golf has seen. That "loopy" swg led to an stctnal book published unr Brewer's name 1968 entled, Gay Brewer Shows You How to Sre Better Than You Swg (affiliate lk).