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Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat.
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Birth: | 4th February, 1912 |
Death: | 26th September, 2006 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Golfer |
Byron Nelson was born in Waxahachie, Texas. He was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946. Although he won many tournaments in the course of his relatively brief career, he is mostly remembered today for having won 11 consecutive tournaments and 18 total tournaments in 1945. He retired officially at the age of 34 to be a rancher, later becoming a commentator and lending his name to the HP Byron Nelson Championship, the first PGA Tour event to be named for a professional golfer. In 1974, Byron Nelson received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.He became the second recipient of the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006.
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