Edgar Sneed Jr. (born August 6, 1944) is an American

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, sportscaster and course design consultant, who played on the

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and the Champions Tour.

Biography

Sneed was born in

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. He graduated from

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and was a member of the golf team. He turned pro in 1967. He worked briefly at Scioto Country Club in

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, the same golf course where

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learned to play golf. Sneed won four PGA Tour events during his career. His first professional win, however, was in Australia. On October 14, 1973, he won the Australian Tour's New South Wales Open by two strokes over Australian Bob Shearer. One shot back of Shearer on the 17th, Sneed finished eagle-par to defeat Shearer by two shots. The very next week, on October 21, 1973, he won his first PGA Tour tournament at the

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. He defeated U.S. Open runner-up John Schlee in a playoff. A year later he was a wire-to-wire winner at the Greater Milwaukee Open. Sneed was a member of the

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team in 1977. He had 46 top-10 finishes in his career on the PGA Tour. Sneed is best known for his performance at the 1979

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. He began Sunday's round with a 5-stroke lead. He had a 3-stroke lead with three holes to play but bogeyed them all. He went into a sudden-death playoff with Tom Watson and

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, but lost to Zoeller on the second hole. This was the first time the Masters used a sudden-death format to decide the Championship. He finished runner-up on the European Tour's 1979 Irish Open and won the unofficial 1980 Morocco Grand Prix over

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. Sneed's last win was at the 1982 Michelob-Houston Open. Like his first official win, defeated Bob Shearer down the wire (this time in a playoff). Sneed made his debut on the Senior PGA Tour in 1994 upon reaching the age of 50. His best finish in this venue is a T-5 at the 1995 Bell Atlantic Classic. Sneed worked for eight years as a golf broadcaster for ABC television and was with

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in 2001. He has also done some course design consulting. He lives in

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. He plans on providing golf instruction with director of golf, Larry Dornisch, at Muirfield Village Golf Club in

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Amateur wins

*1965 Ohio Intercollegiate

Professional wins (8)

PGA Tour wins (4)

PGA Tour playoff record (3–1)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

Other wins (3)

*1972 Maumelle Open *1978 Jerry Ford Invitational (tie with Dale Douglass) *1980

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Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

*Most consecutive cuts made – 8 (1978 PGA – 1980 PGA) *Longest streak of top-10s – 1 (twice)

U.S. national team appearances

Professional *

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

(winners)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sneed, Ed American male golfers Ohio State Buckeyes men's golfers PGA Tour golfers PGA Tour Champions golfers Ryder Cup competitors for the United States American golf commentators Golfers from Virginia Golfers from Florida Sportspeople from Roanoke, Virginia Sportspeople from Palm Harbor, Florida 1944 births Living people 20th-century American sportsmen