Who Was Bryon Nelson?
April 25, 2008 by Sandy Mitchell
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The PGA golfers are in Irving, Texas this weekend competing in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, a part of the PGA circuit since 1944. But who is Byron Nelson, for whom the tournament is named? Simply, the best golfer of his era.
Bryon Nelson played the PGA Tour from 1935 to 1946, before retiring from the game to be a rancher and part time golf announcer. In his relatively short career, he won had 52 PGA wins and five wins in major championships–two at the Masters, one at the US Open, and two at the PGA Championship.
Byron was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and is ranked as the #5 golfer of all time by Golf Digest magazine. Byron died in 2006 at the age of 94.