Larry nelson bio

American professional golfer

Larry Gene Nelson (born September 10, ) is an American professional golfer. He has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level.

Early life and amateur career

Nelson was born in Fort Payne, Alabama and grew up in Acworth, Georgia, northwest of Atlanta. He did not play the game growing up &#; atypical for a successful professional golfer – focusing on basketball and baseball.

Nelson took up golf at the age of 21, after he returned from serving in the infantry in Vietnam (Nelson was a year-old newlywed when he was drafted into the U.S. Army).^[2] Nelson was first introduced to golf by Ken Hummel, a soldier and friend in his infantry unit, and Nelson carefully studied Ben Hogan's book The Five Fundamentals of Golf while learning how to play the game.^[3] He soon discovered that he had a talent for the game, breaking the first time he played and 70 within nine months.

Nelson went on to g