Background
Shaw was born in Wichita, Kansas.
Shaw was born in Wichita, Kansas.
He attended the University of Oregon in Eugene from 1959–1962, and was an All-American member of the golf team Shaw graduated and turned pro in 1962.
He joined the Professional Golf Association Tour in 1963. In 1966, he was seriously injured in a car accident on the way to the Bob Hope Classic. His best finish in a major was a T-21 at the 1969 Professional Golf Association Championship.
His two wins on the senior tour included one senior major, at The Tradition in 1993 when he defeated Mike Hill by one stroke.
He has over two dozen top-10 finishes at this level also. Shaw was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997.
He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Shaw claimed throughout his career on the Professional Golf Association Tour to be four years younger than the age in some record books
He was suspected by some of being older, notably by Frank Hannigan, who as Executive Director of the United States Golf Association paired him with the then-19-year-old Ben Crenshaw and 24-year-old Johnny Miller, both known as fast players, for the first two rounds of the 1971 United States. Open for his apparent amusement.
As it turned out, Hannigan was right. In 1988, Shaw produced a birth certificate proving that he had been born on the same date in 1938, which made him eligible for the Senior Professional Golf Association Tour (now the Champions Tour) starting with the 1989 season. Professional Golf Association Tour wins (4) Other wins (1) 1988 South Florida Professional Golf Association Championship Senior Professional Golf Association Tour wins (2) Other senior wins (1) Wins (1).
