Two-time major winner Jack Burke Jr. dies at 100 years old and Golf Central takes a look at his legendary life. #GolfChannel #GolfCentral #JackBurkeJr
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World Golf Hall of Fame member Jack
Burke Jr has passed away just days
before his 101st birthday Burke was the
oldest living major Champion winning
both the Masters and the PGA in 1956 two
of his 16 PGA Tour
wins the son of a club pro one of eight
kids a marine a Ridder cup player and
Captain a major champion Jack Burke Jr
packed a lot of life into a century Rich
learner has his
story Jack Burke Jr Jackie to his many
friends knew them all so many of the
Legends of Golf entertainment and Sport
over the last century they wanted to be
in his company because of his wit
intellect and honesty Jackie Burke had
plenty to say and people listened often
times around a lunch table or on the
Range at his renowned Houston Golf
Club Burke was born in Fort Worth Texas
in 1923 and born of an era when tour
Pros held down jobs as Club
professionals his father Jack senior a
runner up at the 1920 US Open was Club
Pro at Houston’s River Oaks Country Club
Jack junr grew up watching his father
give lessons to Legends like babe a
harus and Henry Pickard he sharpened The
Gambler sense that later served him well
well as a pro by shooting dice as a
9-year-old in the cat yard and playing
money games as a teenager and when Jack
senior hired a young professional named
Jimmy De Merit to teach his son Junior
added polish to his game they forged a
lasting relationship and years later in
1957 Burke and demerit co-founded
Champions golf club I put good when I
play with demer I just watch his stroke
and copy it and always yeah you copy
that thing I
had Jack Jr turned professional at 17
and then served in the Marines in World
War II after the service he took a job
as an assistant at Wingfoot Golf Club in
New York there he was mentored by the
quintessential PGA professional Claude
Harmon the 1948 Masters champion Jackie
Burke pulled up from nowhere and
clinched a playoff win with this putt on
number
11 that has to be one of the greatest
puts in golfing history he won four
times in 195 five more in 52 including
four in a row taking the vardan trophy
for low-scoring average in 1956 he won
the first televised Masters coming from
eight back to overtake the great amateur
Ken ventur later that season adding the
PGA Championship Jackie SS it to win
three and two the last of his 16 PGA
Tour victories came in
1963 he played on every Ridder Cup team
through the 1950s serving as the playing
captain in 195 57 then as non-playing
Captain in
1973 I’ve got some guys behind me that
are just the most unbelievable golf
players that our country’s ever produced
they had two days practice here and I
just don’t know how they
won his Champions golf club in Houston
actually hosted the 1967 Ryder Cup as
well as the 1969 US Open won by Orville
Moody Jimmy and I never have been
fortunate enough to win it so I guess
the next best thing is to host it Burke
was inducted into the World Golf Hall of
Fame in 2000 received the PGA to her
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and
the usga’s Bob Jones award in
2004 but those who knew Burke will long
remember his charitable side and his
character more than the accolades and
achievements that’s
perfect a stickler for the rules in golf
in business and in life forever old
School Burke also once famously said
Jimmy De Meritt and I had the best
sports psychologist in the world his
name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting
for us after every
round said Ben kensaw there’s no one
like Jack bur Jr one of the funniest men
around so full of
wisdom and
spirit Burke won 19 times overall Prof
professionally was a winning Ryder Cup
captain five-time member of the Ryder
Cup team with a 71 and0 record the PGA
Hall of Fame inducted him in 1975 the
World Golf Hall of Fame in
2000
