Casey Martin (born June 2, 1972) is an American professional golfer and college golf coach.

Martin was born in Eugene, Oregon and still resides there. He was educated at Stanford University, and was briefly a teammate of Tiger Woods. He was a three-time all Pac-10 and was a member of the University’s NCAA Championship team in 1994. He won the 1993 Sahalee Players Championship. He turned professional in 1995.

Martin suffers from a birth defect in his left leg known as Klippel Trenaunay Weber syndrome. Martin successfully sued the PGA Tour in 2001 for the right to use a golf cart during competition under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Among the attorneys representing him was Martha Lee Walters a 2006 appointee to the Oregon Supreme Court. During the years that the suit wound through the courts, he enjoyed limited success on the golf course, and throughout, was permitted to use a golf cart. (Click here to read the article in full)

Grace DeMoss Zwahlen (b. abt 1930 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a former competitive women’s American amateur golfer from Oregon. One of the most successful female golfers from the Pacific Northwest, she was the first Pacific Northwesterner to be named to the prestigious United States Curtis Cup team in 1952 and 1954. After retiring from competitive golf, Zwahlen was named to numerous golf halls of fame and is now a high school golf coach.

Early life and career
DeMoss was born in Corvallis, Oregon, one of five daughters of Ray DeMoss, a Corvallis funeral director. She started playing golf as a teenager at the Corvallis Country Club, though she was initially more interested in equestrian sports.

She entered her first tournament, the Portland Open, in 1945 and came in last place. In her next major tournament a year later, the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Amateur, she made the semifinals, and then a year after that, lost in the finals. Her first tournament victory came in the 1947 Portland City Amateur.

Golf success
After her win in Portland, she entered tournaments across North America, primarily on the west coast. In 1949, she won her first major tournament, the Canadian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. Following that win, she played throughout the winter in California to keep her game sharp. In 1950, she won the Pacific Northwest Amateur Championship played at Capilano Golf and Country Club in West Vancouver, British Columbia. She followed this victory with a semifinalist finish at the United States Women’s Amateur, and was a finalist at the Canadian Women’s Amateur, the Women’s Trans-Mississippi, and the Oregon Women’s Amateur, and was a medalist at the Women’s Western Open.

In 1952, she was named to the United States’ Curtis Cup team, the first golfer from the Northwest to receive the honor. However, that year, the American team lost the cup for the first time since its inception. DeMoss was able to reclaim the cup two years later when she was also named to the 1954 team.

Following her early success, she relocated to Florida to play golf year round where she won Florida state women’s amateur championships in 1955, 1957, and 1958. She returned to the Northwest to claim three straight Oregon women’s amateur titles from 1956 to 1958.

She continued to play competitively into the 1960s before retiring due to neck pain. Since the 1970s, she has been the girls’ golf coach at Crescent Valley High School in her hometown of Corvallis.

Personal
DeMoss graduated from Oregon State University in 1952, but did not compete collegiately as Oregon State did not have a women’s golf team until the 1970s. Following her graduation, DeMoss married Howard Smith and golfed as “Mrs. Grace DeMoss Smith” or “Mrs. Howard Smith” for several years. She was later married to Fred C. Zwahlen Jr., who was the Founder and Chairman of the Department of Journalism at Oregon State, from the late 1950s until his death in 2004. Her family is linked to at least two other Oregon sports heroes: her sister Maxine married Oregon State football Rose Bowl MVP Don Durdan, and another sister, Rae Ardis, married Durdan’s Rose Bowl teammate Quentin Greenough.

Honors
She was named to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, the Oregon State University Sports Hall of Fame in 1991, and the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Hall of Fame in 1993.

Tournament wins
1949 Canadian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship
1950 Pacific Northwest Women’s Amateur
1954 Curtis Cup (team)
1955 Florida Women’s Amateur
1957 Florida Women’s Amateur
1958 Florida Women’s Amateur
1956 Oregon Women’s Amateur
1957 Oregon Women’s Amateur
1958 Oregon Women’s Amateur

Peter Erling Jacobsen (born March 4, 1954) is an American professional golfer.

Early life
Jacobsen was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Portland’s Lincoln High School. He played golf in college at the University of Oregon.

Golf career
Jacobsen is one of golf’s most colorful personalities, that makes him quite popular with fans. He has always been a fine golfer, with a 23 year stretch between first and last victories. He has played on two Ryder Cup teams (1985, 1995). His win at the 2003 Greater Hartford Open at age 49 made him one of the oldest to win on the PGA Tour. That year he was voted comeback player of the year.

Jacobsen currently plays mainly on the Champions Tour, and sometimes on the PGA Tour. In his first year of eligibility for senior golf he won the 2004 U.S. Senior Open, which is one of senior golf’s major championships, and he followed up with a second senior major at the 2005 Senior Players Championship. These are the only two wins Jacobsen has on the Champions Tour, an accomplishment also reached by golfing greats Arnold Palmer, whose first two wins on what was then the Senior PGA Tour were both majors, and Jack Nicklaus, whose first six wins on the Senior PGA Tour were all majors. Jacobsen was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.

Jacobsen also has two shows on The Golf Channel: Peter Jacobsen Plugged In, and Peter and Friends. Both are panel discussion shows, although Plugged In has more variety to it, featuring bands like Hootie and the Blowfish, and also Jacobsen’s own band, whereas Peter and Friends is entirely discussion.

Peter is known for his laid-back, humorous personality. During a three-day charity event in Oregon that he hosts, The Challenge, he is known to do impressions of other players, such as Craig Stadler. The Golf Channel has even filmed Jacobsen during the event, and has released a DVD and VHS of the footage, titled “Peter’s Party.”

Peter Jacobsen also owns Peter Jacobsen Productions. This company has run various golf tournaments including the JELD-WEN Tradition, one of the majors on the Champions Tour. Until 2002 it also produced the Fred Meyer Challenge, an annual Oregon tournament.

Family
Jacobsen married in December 1976 to Jan. The couple have three children: Amy born in 1980, Kristen born in 1982, and Mickey born in 1984.

PGA Tour wins (7)
1980 (1) Buick-Goodwrench Open
1984 (2) Colonial National Invitation, Sammy Davis Jr.-Greater Hartford Open
1990 (1) Bob Hope Chrysler Classic
1995 (2) AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Buick Invitational of California
2003 (1) Greater Hartford Open

Other wins (4)
1976 Oregon Open (as an amateur)
1979 Oregon Open
1989 Isuzu Kapalua International
2003 Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge (with Mark Calcavecchia and John Daly)

Champions Tour wins (2)
2004 U.S. Senior Open
2005 Senior Players Championship
Senior major championships are shown in bold.

Other senior wins (1)
2008 Wendy’s Champions Skins Game (with Fuzzy Zoeller)