"PGA Champion" Kermit Zarley Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"PGA Champion" Kermit Zarley Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Kermit Millard Zarley, Jr.
(born September 29, 1941) is an
American
professional golfer
who played on the
PGA Tour
and the
Champions Tour
. He is also an author of several
books
. Zarley was born in
Seattle, Washington
. He graduated from the
University of Houston
and was a distinguished member of the
golf
team. He was the individual champion at the 1962
NCAA Division I Championships
and also led his team to victory. Zarley had three dozen top-10 finishes in PGA Tour events during his 18 years on Tour including three wins. Zarley had three top-10 finishes in
major championships
; his best was a solo 6th at the 1972
U.S. Open
. Zarley won once on the Senior/Champions Tour. On both Tours, he finished second or tied for second seventeen times. Due to his unusual name, Zarley was often called "the Pro from the Moon" or "Moon Man." It is because comedian
Bob Hope
once interviewed him on national television and remarked, "
Kermit Zarley, with a name like that he must be the pro from the moon.
"
In a
Wayne and Shuster
sketch about a golf tournament being held on the streets of
Toronto
,
Johnny Wayne
's character is named "Zarley Kermit, Jr." In 1965, Zarley co-founded the PGA Tour Bible Study group with fellow PGA Tour players, Jim and
Babe Hiskey
. It still flourishes today and has proliferated throughout the world of professional golf. In the period between his careers on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour, he authored three
books
on religion and world affairs. He received an honorary doctorate degree in 2001 from Chicago's
North Park University
, which has a lecture series named for him.
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Zarley lived much of his adult life in the
Houston metropolitan area
, but now resides in
Scottsdale, Arizona
.