Two days after the death of Calvin Peete, the 1985 Players champion, another pioneering African-American golfer has passed away.
Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga., at the age of 80. Brown won the 1964 Waco Turner Open and the 1970 Andy Williams-San Diego Open, the highlights to a 17-year career on the PGA Tour.
A family friend told the Augusta Chronicle that Brown had suffered from strokes and congestive heart failure in recent years.
“Pete had a lot of medical challenges,” Ramona Harriet told the Chronicle.