George Knudson
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George Alfred Christian Knudson (June 28, 1937 - January 24, 1989) was a Canadian golfer, who still holds the record for the Canadian with the most wins ever on the PGA TOUR, with 8 career victories. However, he never won a major.
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he learned to play golf at the St Charles Golf and Country Club. Between 1961 and 1972 he won 8 tournaments on the PGA TOUR, finally leaving the tour in 1979. He won the Canadian PGA championship 5 times and won the World Cup of Golf with Al Balding in 1968. He wrote a book, The Natural Golf Swing (ISBN 0771045344) with Lorne Rubenstein.
In 1988 he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Golf Association Hall of Fame and was made a member of the Order of Canada.
A chain smoker, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He recovered, and was about to make a comeback on the Legends of Golf tourament, but he had to leave his next tournament because he felt weak. The cancer had spread to his brain, and he died at the age of 51.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.