Lou Graham, the 1975 U.S. Open champion who won five other PGA Tour events, died Monday at age 88, the PGA Tour and USGA said. Friend Joe Taggert, a golf pro at Richland Country Club where Graham was a member, told The Tennessean that Graham had been in hospice care.
Graham captured the U.S. Open by beating John Mahaffey by two strokes at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, the report says. That victory remained the centerpiece of a career that included multiple PGA Tour titles.
Other Tour wins listed in the report include the Minnesota Golf Classic in 1967 and the Liggett and Myers Open in 1972. Graham also recorded three victories in 1979 — the Valero Texas Open, the IVB Philadelphia Golf Classic and the CVS Charity Classic — and those successes earned him Golf Digest’s Comeback of the Year award, per the report…