PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- The loop and the lghs. When rmed of the ath of Gay Brewer Jr. -- who passed away Friday at 75 after battlg lung ncer sce 2006 -- players at...
Contents:
- REMEMBERG GAY BREWER
- LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
- SWG ANALYSIS OF BRIAN GAY, CALLUM SHKW, AND DARREN CLARKE A LSON OF THE WEEK AND MORE – 5 NOVEMBER 2020
REMEMBERG GAY BREWER
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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 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.
LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
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). "More About Gay Brewer. In June of 2007, jt a uple months before his ath as a rult of lung ncer, Brewer's beloved Pidome Golf Course Lexgton, Ky., was renamed The Gay Brewer Jr.
SWG ANALYSIS OF BRIAN GAY, CALLUM SHKW, AND DARREN CLARKE A LSON OF THE WEEK AND MORE – 5 NOVEMBER 2020
"Gay was jt a fun-lovg guy and you always looked forward to beg around him. In addn to the stctnal book mentned durg the swg sectn, Brewer also thored Gay Brewer's Golf Guibook: Basic Form and Playg Techniqu for Young People (affiliate lk). When rmed of the ath of Gay Brewer Jr.
"Gay was one of those guys. I would tell some of the junrs here this week to look at how Gay and other great players of years ago did their way. In June Pidome golf urse Lexgton, where Brewer learned the game, was renamed The Gay Brewer Jr.
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