| Gary Cowan | |||||||
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 Cowan in 2009. | |||||||
| Personal information | |||||||
| Born | (1938-10-28)October 28, 1938 (age 87) | ||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) | ||||||
| Sporting nationality |  Canada | ||||||
| Career | |||||||
| Turned professional | 1990 | ||||||
| Former tour | Senior PGA Tour | ||||||
| Best results in major championships | |||||||
| Masters Tournament | T25: 1964 | ||||||
| PGA Championship | DNP | ||||||
| U.S. Open | DNP | ||||||
| The Open Championship | DNP | ||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||
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Gary Cowan (born October 28, 1938) is aCanadiangolfer who has achieved outstanding results at the highest class inamateur competition.
Cowan was born inKitchener,Ontario, Canada. He began to play golf at the municipal golf course, Rockway, in Kitchener, and found great rivalries there with local players such asMoe Norman and Gerry Kesselring. The three were coached by Lloyd Tucker.[1]
In 1956, Cowan reached the semifinals of the Ontario Amateur Championship at age 17, a record for a player so young. Later in the year, he won the Canadian Junior Championship.
His first national championship victory at men's level was the 1961Canadian Amateur Championship, which was to be his only win, but he reached the finals on four other occasions (1959, 1960, 1964, 1968), and finished second at stroke play twice more (1974, 1978). Cowan finished as the low individual scorer at the1962 Eisenhower Trophy, an international amateur team event, inJapan.[1]
Cowan went on to win theUnited States Amateur Championship on two occasions. In 1966, he was victorious at theMerion Golf Club in suburbanPhiladelphia, after defeatingDeane Beman in an 18-hole playoff. Then in 1971, he won at theWilmington Country Club inWilmington, Delaware, by sinking his approach shot on the final hole with a nine-iron for an eagle two.[2] Cowan remains one of only two Canadians to win theU.S. Amateur.[1]
Cowan also won theSunnehanna Amateur in 1964 and thePorter Cup in 1969.
Between 1964 and 1984 Cowan has captured nine Ontario Amateur championships.[3]
In 1990, at the age of 52, Cowan turned professional and played on theSenior PGA Tour for a couple of years with three top-10 finishes.
Cowan had a successful career in theinsurance business.
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