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Billy Casper (b. 24 June 1931, San Diego,
California) is an American golfer who was one of
the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA
Tour from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s.

==Career summary==

Casper's principal achievements include:

*3 major championships: the 1959 and 1966 U.S.
Open (golf)|U.S. Opens, and the 1970 Masters
Tournament.
*51 PGA Tour wins: As of February 2005, this puts
him sixth on the all time list of golfers with
most PGA Tour wins.
*Topping the PGA Tour money list in 1966 and 1968.

Casper was a member of the United States team in
the Ryder Cup in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1969,
1971, 1973 and 1975 and non-playing captain in
1979. In 1978 he was inducted into the World Golf
Hall of Fame.

Between 1982 and 1989 he accumulated eight wins on
the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour),
including one senior major, the 1983 U.S. Senior
Open.

==PGA Tour wins==

*1956  Labatt Open  
*1957  Phoenix Open Invitational,  Kentucky Derby
Open Invitational  
*1958  Bing Crosby National Pro-Am Golf
Championship,  Greater New Orleans Open
Invitational,  Buick Open Invitational  
*1959  U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open,  Portland
Centennial Open Invitational,  Lafayette Open
Invitational,  Mobile Sertoma Open Invitational  
*1960  Portland Open Invitational,  Hesperia Open
Invitational,  Orange County Open Invitational  
*1961  Portland Open Invitational 
*1962  Doral C.C. Open Invitational,  Greater
Greensboro Open,  500 Festival Open Invitation, 
Bakersfield Open Invitational  
*1963  Bing Crosby National Pro-Am,  Insurance
City Open Invitational  
*1964  Doral Open Invitational,  Colonial National
Invitation,  Greater Seattle Open Invitational, 
Almaden Open Invitational
*1965  Bob Hope Desert Classic,  Western Open, 
Insurance City Open Invitational,  Sahara
Invitational  
*1966  San Diego Open Invitational,   U.S. Open
(golf)|U.S. Open,  Western Open,  500 Festival
Open Invitation  
*1967  Canadian Open,  Carling World Open  
*1968  Los Angeles Open,  Greater Greensboro Open,
 Colonial National Invitation,  500 Festival Open
Invitation,  Greater Hartford Open Invitational, 
Lucky International Open  
*1969  Bob Hope Desert Classic,  Western Open, 
Alcan Open  
*1970  Los Angeles Open,  Masters Tournament, 
IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic,  Avco Classic  
*1971  Kaiser International Open Invitational  
*1973  Western Open,  Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater
Hartford Open  
*1975  First NBC New Orleans Open  

Major championships are shown in bold.

==Champions Tour wins==
*1982  The Shootout at Jeremy Ranch,  Merrill
Lynch/Golf Digest Pro-Am  
*1983  U.S. Senior Open  
*1984  SENIOR PGA TOUR Roundup  
*1987  Del E. Webb Arizona Classic,  Greater Grand
Rapids Open
*1988  Vantage At The Dominion,  Mazda SENIOR
TOURNAMENT PLAYERS Championship  
*1989  Transamerica Senior Golf Championship

==Other wins==
:This list is incomplete.
*1974 Lancome Trophy (France, but not a European
Tour event at that time.)

==See also==

*Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
*Golfers with most major title wins

==External link==

http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/132163 Profile
on the PGA Tour's official site