- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWilliam Earl Casper Jr.
- Nicknames
- Buffalo Bill
- Buffalo Billy
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Billy Casper was born on June 24, 1931 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), The Donald O'Connor Show (1968) and Roar of the Crowd (1969). He was married to Shirley Ann Franklin. He died on February 7, 2015 in Springville, Utah, USA.
- SpouseShirley Ann Franklin(June 28, 1952 - February 7, 2015) (his death, 11 children)
- Great putting and his overall short game.
- Born at 10:24am-PDT
- As a prolific PGA Tour professional golfer, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
- He won 51 PGA Tour events from 1956 through 1975, making him, as of February 2015, seventh all-time for number of PGA Tour victories, after Sam Snead (82), Tiger Woods (79), Jack Nicklaus (73), Ben Hogan (64), Arnold Palmer (62), and Byron Nelson (52), and leading Walter Hagen (45), Phil Mickelson (42), and Cary Middlecoff (40), as they all appear in the top ten all-time PGA Tour winners.
- As a teen, he idolized Ben Hogan, who Billy was later fortunate to play with on the US PGA Tour, from Billy's first year as a professional PGA tour winner, 1956, to Hogan's last year as a PGA tour winner, 1959 (Hogan continued to play sporadically through the 1960s).
- Golf Digest magazine ranked Casper as the fifteenth greatest, all time, golfer in the magazine's year 2000 ranking.
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