Dale Douglass Death – American professional golfer, Dale Dwight Douglass passed away on Wednesday, 6th of July 2022 at the age of 86. Douglass won tournaments at both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour level. He was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma and graduated in 1959 from University of Colorado. He turned pro in 1960, and joined the PGA Tour in 1963. Reports states that Douglass played on the 1969 Ryder Cup team.
Douglass won 3 times on the PGA Tour and 11 times on the Senior Tour. PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour and the Champions Tour) is a men’s professional senior golf tour, administered as a branch of the PGA Tour. The Senior PGA Championship, founded in 1937, was for many years the only high-profile tournament for golfers over 50.
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The idea for a senior tour grew out of a highly successful event in 1978, the Legends of Golf at Onion Creek Club in Austin, Texas, which featured competition between two-member teams of some of the greatest older golfers of that day. According to the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), the icon died in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a long illness.
He was the first golfer from the University of Colorado to play on the PGA Tour. At CU, Douglass was not only a three-time, he was also a first-team all-conference performer, in the Big Seven in 1956 and the Big Eight in 1958 and 1959.
In 2010, Douglass was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, the second golfer after Hale Irwin to be so honored. Report states that Douglass defeated Gary Player by one stroke in the 1986 U.S. Senior Open. He also had 26 Senior Open runner-up finishes to go with his 11 victories. 9NEWS said in a release that the icon created an endowment for the CU golf program and also sponsored an annual tournament in his name in Fort Morgan.
