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Gary Jacobson (golfer)

professional golfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ16227572 ↗
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Gary Jacobson (born c. 1953) is an American former PGA Tour professional golfer.

Career

Jacobson finished in a tie for fifth at the 1977 U.S. Open. He played on the PGA Tour in 1978, making only two cuts in 15 tournaments.

As of May 1979, Jacobson was beginning to change careers. He was learning to be a sales representative at Northern Printing of Minneapolis.

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“Gary Jacobson (golfer)” enters the record as professional golfer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gary, Jacobson and golfer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1977, 1978, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gary, Jacobson and golfer.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16227572. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1977, 1978 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gary Jacobson (golfer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.