By Linda Loons
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kelly Gibson (born May 2, 1964) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.
Gibson joined the Nationwide Tour in 1990. He won the Ben Hogan Tri-Cities Open in 1991 and also earned his PGA Tour card that year through qualifying school. In his rookie year on the PGA Tour, Gibson finished 105th on the money list while recording three top-10 finishes. He finished 110th on the money list in 1993. In 1994 he recorded two top-10 finishes while finishing 129th on the money list, four spots shy of retaining full-time status on the Tour but he went to qualifying school and earned his card for 1995. He finished 109th on the money list in 1995 while recording one top-10 finish. His best year on Tour came in 1996 when he finished 69th on the money list while recording two top-10 finishes. He finished in a tie for third at the Las Vegas Invitational, his best finish on Tour in his career. His success continued in 1997 when he finished 92nd on the money list with a top-10 finish and also finished in a tie for 28th at the U.S. Open. His performance fell off in 1998, he finished 139th on the money list earning only partial status on Tour for 1999 and spent most of his time that year on the Nationwide Tour. He won the Nike Oregon Classic that year and recorded six top-10 finishes en route to a 13th-place finish on the money list, earning him his PGA Tour card for 2000. In his return to the PGA Tour he only made 12 cuts out of 30 events entered so he returned to the Nationwide Tour for 2001. He split time between Tours from 2002 to 2004 and played in a limited number of tournaments after that.
Gibson created the Kelly Gibson Foundation in 2005 to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. He also created a Junior Golf Tour in 2009.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
What do these sentences have in common?
Joey packed my sledge with five boxes of frozen quail.
Back in my quaint garden, jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.
Both contain all 26 letters of the alphabet.
Died
- Leonardo da Vinci (artist) –
- Joseph McCarthy (U.S. senator) –
- J. Edgar Hoover (Director of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) –
- Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr. (one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly in all three of NASA’s earliest manned spaceships) –
- Jack Kemp (football player & politician) –
Born
- Dr. Benjamin Spock (pediatrician) –
- Bernard Slade (television writer and playwright) –
- Christine Baranski (actress) –
- Kelly Gibson (golfer) –
- Dwayne Johnson (actor) –
- David Beckham (soccer player) –
- Kyle Busch (race car driver) –
- Sarah Hughes (Olympic gold medalist figure skater) –
Events
- Hudson’s Bay Co. chartered–
- First provisional government in the Pacific Northwest approved, Champoeg, Oregon–
- Good Housekeeping magazine debuted–
- First U.S. kindergarten for the blind opened–
- First drawing sent by radio across Atlantic–
- Alcatraz Prison riots began–
- Northern Dancer became first Canadian horse to win Kentucky Derby–
- Ninety-one people killed in mine disaster caused by a fire at the Sunshine Silver Mine in Idaho–
- The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial was dedicated, Washington, D.C.–
- Tony Blair became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom–
- Horse Mine That Bird won Kentucky Derby–
Weather
- A tornado struck Port Royal Island, South Carolina–
- Six tornadoes hit Scott County, Virginia–
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