Gary Cowan
| Gary Cowan | |
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Cowan in 2009.
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| Personal information | |
| Born |
October 28, 1938 Kitchener, Ontario |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13.2 st) |
| Nationality |
 Canada
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| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1990 |
| Former tour(s) | Senior PGA Tour |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | T25: 1964 |
| U.S. Open | DNP |
| The Open Championship | DNP |
| PGA Championship | DNP |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |
1967 |
| Canadian Golf Hall of Fame |
1972 |
| Canadian Male Golfer of the 20th Century |
2000 |
Gary Cowan (born October 28, 1938) is a Canadian golfer who has achieved outstanding results at the highest class in amateur competition.
Cowan was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He began to play golf at the municipal golf course, Rockway, in Kitchener, and found great rivalries there with such excellent players as Moe Norman and Gerry Kesselring. The three were coached by Lloyd Tucker.
Cowan reached the semi-finals of the Ontario Amateur Championship at age 17 in 1956, a record for a player so young.
He won the 1956 Canadian Junior Championship. His first national championship victory at men's level was the 1961 Canadian 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 the 1962 Eisenhower Trophy, an international amateur team event, in Japan.
Cowan went on to win the United States Amateur Championship on two occasions. In 1966, he was victorious at the Merion Golf Club in suburban Philadelphia, after defeating Deane Beman in an 18-hole playoff. Then in 1971, he won at the Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, by sinking his approach shot on the final hole with a nine-iron for an eagle two. Cowan remains the only player to win the U.S. Amateur twice at stroke play, and he remains one of only two Canadians (the first was Sandy Somerville in 1932) to win the U.S. Amateur.
Cowan also won the Sunnehanna Amateur in 1964 and the Porter Cup in 1969.
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