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Fezler was born in Hayward, California.
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Forrest Fezler
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He attended James Lick High School and was a member of the golf team And a teammate of future fellow player Roger Maltbie. Fezler attended San Jose City College from 1968–1969, and still holds most of the college"s golf records.
He later attended Stanford University.
Career
He first showed an interest in the game of golf as a 7-year-old boy growing up in San Jose, California by drawing golf holes. As a youth, he would sneak onto the course at the San Jose Country Club to practice. He had 30 top-10 finishes including eight runner-up finishes.
This was his best finish in a major championship.
In 1976, Fezler tore the tendons in his left wrist and was forced to make major adjustments in his game – both in the number of tournaments he played and in his swing. He would limit his full-time professional play in 1983, and in 1984 took the head club pro job at Blackhawk Country Club in the East Bay region of California.
During his career, he earned a respectable $527,000, which was above-average for that era. Dress code protest Fezler had been unhappy for some time with the dress code which required players to wear slacks and forbade short pants.
At the 1983 United States. Open, which is run by the United States Golf Association, Fezler was goaded by a reporter to wear shorts in protest the next day during the tournament.
He waited until the last hole of the last round and, in Superman fashion, stepped into a portable toilet, changed into shorts and played the last hole, then hurriedly left the course to avoid possible admonishment by the United States Golf Association. He developed his own golf course, which he called Golden Eagle, in Tallahassee, Florida. Fezler now runs his Tallahassee-based business with the help of other partners and associates. 1969 Santa Clara County Championship, California State Amateur, California Community College Championship wins (1) Other wins (1) DNP = Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Yellow background for top-10.
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