Andy Bean, 11-time PGA Tour winner, dead at 70 after complications from a double lung transplant following a bout of Covid

Andy Bean, an 11-time PGA Tour winner, has died aged 70 after reportedly suffering complications from a double lung transplant.

Bean had respiratory problems after a bout of Covid and had the transplant last month. He is survived by his wife Debbie and their three daughters. Bean is in his hometown of Lakeland, Fla.

As well as several PGA Tour triumphs, Bean played for the United States in the Ryder Cup in 1979 and 87. He never won a major, but was runner-up three times, in the 1980 and 89 PGA Championship and the 1983 British Open.

Bean’s first PGA Tour victory came in 1977 at the Doral-Eastern Open in Miami. The last of those 11 came in 1986 at the Byron Nelson Golf Classic in the Dallas area. He was also a three-time winner on the Champions Tour.

A native of Georgia, Bean attended Florida and turned professional in 1975. He finished 10 consecutive seasons in the top 35 of the PGA Tour money list from 1977-86 and had five top-seven finishes in that stretch.

MORE TO FOLLOW