Tom Weiskopf, a 16-time winner on the PGA Tour and 1973 Open Championship winner, died at his dwelling in Montana on Saturday, his wife reported. He was 79.

Weiskopf was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2020. Laurie Weiskopf reported her partner was doing work last week at The Club at Spanish Peaks and attended a legacy luncheon at the signature club the place he was coming up with "The Legacy: Tom’s 10," a collection of his 10 most loved par 3s.

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Tom Weiskopf for the duration of the Winner Golfers' Challenge ahead of the 144th Open on July 15, 2015, in St Andrews, Scotland. (Ian Walton/R&A by using Getty Photos)

"He labored to the conclude. It was wonderful. He experienced a large life," she stated.

Weiskopf was equally acknowledged for the important tournaments he didn’t get. He finished runner-up at the Masters 4 occasions – the most for any participant who has not won a environmentally friendly jacket. In 1975, he and Johnny Miller viewed Jack Nicklaus masterfully sink a 40-foot birdie.

In a Golf Digest interview in 2008, he reported of Nicklaus: "Likely head to head against Jack Nicklaus in a significant was like hoping to drain the Pacific Ocean with a teacup. You stand on the very first tee realizing that your quite greatest golfing could possibly not be superior ample."

Tom Weiskopf in motion at the 2004 British Open up. (Tony Marshall/EMPICS by means of Getty Visuals)

He topped Miller, Nicklaus and Neil Coles in 1973 for the British Open up earn. He was 12-less than par for the tournament.

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Weiskopf was also acknowledged for his architecture chops. He partnered with Jay Moorish on the Troon Country Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1986, and it was named one particular of the greatest new classes by Golf Digest. He and Moorish labored on 25 programs together.

He worked on about 80 classes, which includes Loch Lomond in Scotland, and served renovate the North Class at Torrey Pines.

Tom Weiskopf wedges from the first inexperienced all through the Memorial Match at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, on May well 24, 1980. (WHD Picture/File)

"I ought to have performed additional," he at the time told Golf Digest of his vocation. "But I really don't dwell on it any longer. I will say this, however: If it wasn’t for the simple fact that I appreciate so much what I’m doing now (golfing program design), I would likely be a really not happy man or woman."

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Of his 16 PGA Tour wins, 3 arrived at the Kemper Open up and two at the Canadian Open and the IVB Philadelphia Golfing Traditional. He also gained at the Benson & Hedges Global Open on the European Tour in 1981. He gained the U.S. Senior Open up in 1995 over Nicklaus by four strokes.

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