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Apr 04, 1905 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Died on 23 Jun 1977 (aged 72)
Sports promoter, agent, golf historian and administrator
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About Fred Corcoran
- Fred J.
- Corcoran (April 4, 1905 – June 23, 1977) was a golf tournament director, publicist, agent and business manager.
- Known around the world as "Mr.
- Golf," he was one of the first non-players to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1975.
- He acted as tournament manager of the PGA in the 1930s, promotion manager in the 1940s; the founder of the LPGA, the Golf Writers Association of America, the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association; tournament director of the Thunderbird and Westchester Classic; and the director of the International Golf Association.
- In addition to golf, his diverse career also included the world of baseball, boxing, hockey, football as he at one time managed the business affairs of Sam Snead, Ted Williams, Babe Zaharias, Stan Musial, Tony Lema, Ken Venturi, Seve Ballesteros, Tom Weiskopf and Pete Gogolak. Corcoran is honored annually with the Corcoran Cup, a golf tournament featuring the nation's top blind golfers, to raise funds for Guiding Eyes for the Blind, an organization that trains dogs for the visually impaired.
- He was inducted into the Massachusetts Golf Hall of Fame in 2002.
