Background
Fergus was born in Temple, Texas.
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Keith Fergus
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He attended and was a member of the golf team at the University of Houston, where he was a 3-time All American and runner-up to Jay Haas at the 1975 National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship.
Career
He started playing golf at age 8. In high school, he played football and basketball but enjoyed practicing golf more than the other sports. He turned pro in 1976.
Fergus had his best years on the Professional Golf Association Tour in the early 1980s.
His best finish in a major was a T-3 at the 1980 United States. Open. He also had a T-4 at the 1981 Professional Golf Association Championship.
He began using the long putter in 1988. Fergus took a break from the tour in 1988 when he accepted the head golf coaches job at his alma mater, the University of Houston, a position he held until 1994.
Fergus resumed tour play in the mid-1990s on both the Nationwide Tour and, on a limited basis, in Professional Golf Association Tour events.
In 1996, at the Nortel Open, he was attacked by a swarm of killer bees and was stung 10 to 15 times. His caddie was stung more than 50 times. After turning 50 in March 2004, he began play on the Champions Tour.
Fergus has done some course design work and starred in some television commercials.
He lives in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land. In his spare time, he enjoys fishing.
1971 Texas State Junior Professional Golf Association Tour wins (3) Nationwide Tour wins (2) Other wins (1) Champions Tour wins (3).
