George Douglas Sanders was an American professional golfer who won 20 events on the PGA Tour and had four runner-up finishes at major championships.
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14 Facts About Doug Sanders
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Doug Sanders was born into a poor family in Cedartown, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta, where his father farmed and drove trucks.
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Doug Sanders accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played for the Gators golf team in National Collegiate Athletic Association competition in 1955.
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Doug Sanders won the 1956 Canadian Open as an amateur—the only amateur ever to do so—and turned professional shortly thereafter.
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Doug Sanders was the last amateur to win on the PGA Tour until Scott Verplank in 1985.
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Doug Sanders had thirteen top-ten finishes in major championships, including four second-place finishes: 1959 PGA Championship, 1961 US Open, 1966 and 1970 Opens.
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Doug Sanders is remembered for an exceptionally short, flat golf swing — a consequence, it appears, of a painful neck condition that radically restricted his movements.
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Doug Sanders identified himself as the lead character, a playboy PGA Tour golfer, in the golf novel Dead Solid Perfect, by Dan Jenkins.
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Doug Sanders wrote a golf instruction book, "Compact Golf", published in 1964, the title of which linked to Doug Sanders' short golf swing.
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Doug Sanders's autobiography "Come swing with me" was published in 1974.
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Doug Sanders changed his schedule at the last minute and did not join Lema on the flight.
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