salesman in Seattle. That was 1995, and Beem wasn’t playing any professional golf after a solid college career playing for his father, Larry, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M. He was appearing in just his fourth major, posting a tie for 70th in the 1999 PGA Championship, so Rich Beem wasn’t exactly scaring the daylights out of anyone
Rich Beem celebrates in 2002 with then-PGA President Jack Connelly and CBS Sports’ Bill Macatee.