Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame

Lou Graham

     

%    Won the 1975 US Open at Medinah Country Club

%    Played on three Ryder Cup teams (1973, 1975, 1977)

%    Won the Golf Digest’s Comeback of the Year Award in 1979

%    Won over $1.4 million on the PGA Tour and over $600,000 in Senior Tour career earnings

%    He was on the victorious 1975 World Cup Team

%    Lou was inducted as a charter member of the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame in  1990

Lou Graham started playing golf when he was seven years old.  He played on the golf team at Memphis State University for three years, and afterwards was drafted to the Army.  While in the Army, Graham served as a member of the ceremonial Honor Guard that guards the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery.   He also made the All-Army golf team that won the Inter-Service championship in 1961.  Graham joined the Tour in September of 1964. His first win was in 1967 during his third full year on the tour – the Minnesota Golf Classic at Hazeltine National Golf Club.  Graham won again in 1972, the Liggett and Myers Open, followed by the US Open in 1975. Graham had only three Tour wins in fifteen years and then in 1979 he had won three more in a space of eleven weeks.