Andy Bean
Summary
Near misses
- 1980 PGA Championship Oak Hill Country Club (East Course) · runner-up to Jack Nicklaus · 281
- 1980 The Open Muirfield · finished T6 · 282 (-2)
- 1983 The Open Royal Birkdale Golf Club · runner-up to Tom Watson · 276
- 1989 PGA Championship Kemper Lakes Golf Club · runner-up to Payne Stewart · 277
Ryder Cup
2 Cups, 6 matches: 4 won, 2 lost, 0 halved, 4 points. Foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 2-1-0, singles 2-0-0.
Rivals
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Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
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Results by championship
Best day
1989 PGA Championship
Runner-up to Payne Stewart · 277.
Chosen by rule: the most recent of the best major finishes. Year page: 1989.
Career line, 1979–1989
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- Runner-up
- Top 10
- Ryder Cup, USA
Andy Bean was born in 1953 in LaFayette, Georgia. Bean's best major finish was second, at the 1980 PGA Championship, the 1983 Open and the 1989 PGA Championship. Bean played in 2 Ryder Cups for USA (1979, 1987), winning 4, losing 2 and halving 0 of 6 matches for 4 points.
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The record
Near misses
Top-10 finishes are listed for The Open, the one championship with a full top 10 every year.
- 1980 PGA Championship Oak Hill Country Club (East Course) · runner-up to Jack Nicklaus · 281
- 1980 The Open Muirfield · finished T6 · 282 (-2)
- 1983 The Open Royal Birkdale Golf Club · runner-up to Tom Watson · 276
- 1989 PGA Championship Kemper Lakes Golf Club · runner-up to Payne Stewart · 277
Ryder Cup
Bean played 2 Ryder Cups for USA: 6 matches, 4 won, 2 lost, 0 halved, 4 points (66.7% of those available). By format: foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 2-1-0, singles 2-0-0 (won-lost-halved).
- 1979 The Greenbrier (Greenbrier Course) USA · USA won 17–11 · 2-1-0, 2 points · automatic
- 1987 Muirfield Village Golf Club USA · Europe won 15–13 · 2-1-0, 2 points · automatic
Partners, with matches played together: Lee Elder (1), Tom Kite (1), Mark Calcavecchia (1), Payne Stewart (1).
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.