Richard Dan "Danny" Edwards (born June 14, 1951) is an American

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who has played on the

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and Champions Tour. He is the older brother of former PGA Tour player David Edwards. Edwards was born in

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. He started playing golf at age 14 and nearly four years later won the Oklahoma State High School Championship. He attended

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and was a four-year starter on the golf team. He won the 1972 and 1973 Big Eight Conference Championships, the 1972

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, and was a three-time All-American. He was the lone unbeaten player on the

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team and that same year, while on his first trip to Europe, finished as the Low Amateur in the British Open. Edwards turned professional in 1973 and joined the PGA Tour in 1975, and won five official Tour events. His first victory came at the 1977

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– the only event he would win twice. His best finish in a

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was T5 at the 1974 British Open. Edwards would earn more than three dozen top-10 finishes in Tour events; his final win came at the 1985 Pensacola Open. Two months after winning his second Greater Greensboro Open (1982), he donned a racing helmet and won the June Sprints, one of the country's most prestigious automobile races, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He is the only PGA Tour professional to accomplish the crossover victory feat in the two sports. In the summer of 1988, after 14 years on the PGA Tour, and never losing exempt status, Edwards stepped away from competitive golf and founded Royal Grip Inc., in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company would become its own revolution in advancing and improving perhaps the most essential piece of golf equipment. ceomees he turned his attention to the business world. In 1998, Edwards became CEO of GreenFix Golf, a company that manufactures a tool that enables players and maintenance crews to repair ball marks to golf greens. In 2019, he founded The Chipping Equation, a revolutionary yet simple system that is geared to helping golfers of all abilities learn and perfect one forgotten yet key segment of the game. In April 2022, Edwards wrote his first book, DRIVEN - The Danny Edwards Story (with Bob Denney), which was published by Classics of Golf, www.ClassicsofGolf.com, Amazon, Kindle, and Apple. Edwards lives in

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Amateur wins

*1972

, Southeastern Amateur

Professional wins (9)

PGA Tour wins (5)

PGA Tour playoff record (1–0)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (1)

Other wins (3)

*1975

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*1977

*1979

Results in major championships

_LA = Low amateur
CUT = Missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1982 Open Championship)
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 7 (1983 PGA – 1986 Masters) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur *

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(winners)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Danny American male golfers Oklahoma State Cowboys golfers PGA Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Golfers from Alaska Golfers from Scottsdale, Arizona People from Ketchikan, Alaska 1951 births Living people 20th-century American sportsmen