Tallest Tour Champion
August 13, 2010 by Admin
In 1961 Charlie Sifford played the Greater Greensboro Open at Sedgefield Country Club. It was the very first time that an Afro-American golfer was permitted to play in a PGA Tour event in the southern part of the United States. Sifford impressed everyone by playing well enough to finish in fourth place against some of the greatest players in history.
Phil Blackmar, was the tallest man to ever win a PGA Tour event. Blackmar, at six feet, seven inches in his socks and a full inch taller than former pro, George Archer, won the 1977 Shell Houston Open on the first hole of a sudden death playoff. Blackmar took home a cool $288,000 which is more money than he won in any of his previous 13 seasons.
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