Gay Brewer, 1967 Masters champion, dies

August 31, 2007

Golfer Gay Brewer is shown in this 1971 file photo at the US Open at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. Brewer, the 1967 Masters champion who won 11 times on the PGA Tour, died Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, at his home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 75.

Gay Brewer, the 1967 Masters champion who won 11 times on the PGA Tour, died Friday at his home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 75. Brewer, who also won once on the Champions Tour before retiring in 2000, had been battling cancer since October, fiancee Alma Jo McGuire said. “It was incurable,” she said.


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