Dave Ragan

{{short description|American golfer, PGA Tour member, college golf coach}}

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| fullname = David William Ragan, Jr.

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|8|7|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Daytona Beach, Florida

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| college = University of Florida

| yearpro = 1956

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| extour = PGA Tour
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| pgawins = 3

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| masters = T25: 1960, 1962

| usopen = T12: 1963

| open = DNP

| pga = 2nd: 1963

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David William Ragan, Jr. (August 7, 1935 – March 13, 2018) was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.

Ragan was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for the Florida Gators men's golf team in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) competition from 1954 to 1956.{{cite web |url=http://web.gatorzone.com/golf/men/media/2010/supplement.pdf |title=Florida Men's Golf 2011 Media Supplement |publisher=University Athletic Association |location=Gainesville, Florida |pages=35, 39, 41 |date=2010 |access-date=July 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402035020/http://web.gatorzone.com/golf/men/media/2010/supplement.pdf |archive-date=April 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} During his time as a Gator golfer, he was a member of the Gators team that finished sixth in the NCAA national tournament in 1955, and won the first two Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships in team history in 1955 and 1956. As a senior in 1956, he won the SEC individual championship, and was recognized as an All-American.{{cite web |url=http://www.gatorzone.com/golf/men/media/2008/pdf/5_history.pdf |title=2008–09 Florida Gators Men's Golf Media Guide |publisher=University Athletic Association |location=Gainesville, Florida |page=36 |date=2008 |access-date=July 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322012152/http://www.gatorzone.com/golf/men/media/2008/pdf/5_history.pdf |archive-date=March 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Ragan was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."{{cite web |publisher=F Club, Hall of Fame |url=http://www.gatorfclub.org/hall-of-fame/greats |title=Gator Greats |access-date=December 15, 2014}}

Ragan turned professional in 1956 and played on the PGA Tour in the late 1950s and 1960s, winning three times. He finished second to Jack Nicklaus in the 1963 PGA Championship.{{cite web |title=Golf Major Championships |url=http://golfmajorchampionships.com/players?player=265 |accessdate=December 26, 2007}} He was a member of the 1963 Ryder Cup team.

In the early 1980s, he was the coach for the Tennessee Temple Crusaders golf team of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee.{{cite web |title=Covenant Promotes Tom Schreiner to Head Golf Coach |url=http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_83660.asp |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708143132/http://chattanoogan.com/articles/article_83660.asp |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead }} He was also the coach of the Ragin' Cajuns golf team at University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. From 1984 to 1986, he worked in partnership with Jack Wall and Bobby Greenwood at the Master's School of Golf.{{cite web |title=Bobby Greenwood, PGA Career Timeline |url=http://www.greenwoodpga.net/careerprofile.htm |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723140253/http://www.greenwoodpga.net/careerprofile.htm |archive-date=July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} He played sparingly on the Senior PGA Tour starting in 1987.

Golf Digest magazine recognized Ragan as one of the top golf instructors in the state of Alabama in 2007.{{cite web | title=Best Teachers in Your State | publisher=Golf Digest | url=http://www.golfdigest.com/images/rankings/2007/08/gd200708bestinstate_teachers.pdf | accessdate=December 11, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512021239/http://www.golfdigest.com/images/rankings/2007/08/gd200708bestinstate_teachers.pdf | archive-date=May 12, 2008 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }} He worked for many years as a teaching pro at Inverness Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama. He taught at Pine Tree Country Club in Irondale, AL (near Birmingham) from 1995 to 1998. His son, Dave III, is a teaching pro in Miami.{{cite web |title=Dave Ragan, III |url=http://dyn.pga.com/improve/find-an-instructor/instructorprofile.cfm?pgaid=10459178 |accessdate=December 11, 2007 |archive-date=July 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715072007/http://dyn.pga.com/improve/find-an-instructor/instructorprofile.cfm?pgaid=10459178 |url-status=dead }} Another one of his sons, Chuck is a singer/songwriter, as well as the frontman for the punk rock group Hot Water Music.

Ragan died on March 13, 2018, aged 82 years.{{cite web |url=https://www.pgatour.com/news/2018/03/15/dave-ragan-obit.html |title=Three-time Tour winner Ragan passes away |publisher=PGA Tour |first=Chris |last=Cox |date=March 15, 2018}}