Andy Bean, an 11-time PGA Tour winner, has died aged 70 after reportedly suffering complications from a double lung transplant.
Bean had difficulty breathing after contracting Covid and underwent a transplant last month. He is survived by his wife Debbie and their three daughters. Bean died in his hometown of Lakeland, Florida.
In addition to several triumphs on the PGA Tour, Bean played for the United States in the Ryder Cup in 1979 and 1987. He never won a major, but finished runner-up three times, at the PGA Championship in 1980 and 1989 and the British Open in 1983.
Bean’s first PGA Tour victory came at the 1977 Doral-Eastern Open in Miami. The last of these eleven tournaments was the 1986 Byron Nelson Golf Classic in the Dallas area. He was also a three-time winner of the Champions Tour.
A Georgia native, Bean attended Florida and turned professional in 1975. He finished in the top 35 of the PGA Tour money list for ten consecutive seasons from 1977 to 1986, recording five top-seven finishes during that time.
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