Dale Douglass, a former PGA Tour winner and U.S. Senior Open champion, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a long illness on July 6, according to the University of Colorado Sports Information Department; he was 86.
Douglass won three times on the PGA Tour (with three playoff losses), represented the U.S. at the 1969 Ryder Cup and was one of the early players to have great success on the Senior Tour (since renamed the PGA Tour Champions). He won 11 times on that circuit, including one major, as he defeated Gary Player by one stroke in the 1986 U.S. Senior Open in Columbus, Ohio.
Born Dale Dwight Douglass on March 5, 1936 in Wewoka, Okla., he grew up in Fort Morgan, Colo., where he graduated high school before enrolling at Colorado in the fall of 1955. Douglass was a three-time, first-team all-conference performer, in the Big Seven in 1956 and the Big Eight in 1958 and 1959. He was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010, the second golfer to do so after Hale Irwin.
