Gay Brewer, the 1967 Masters champion who won 11 times on the PGA Tour, died Friday at his home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 75. Brewer, who retired from the Champions Tour in 2000, had been battling cancer since October, fiancee Alma Jo McGuire said. "It was incurable," she said. "It was easier on him and the family that it didn't go any longer than it did." Brewer won the 1967 Masters for his lone major title a year after he lost an 18-hole playoff to Jack Nicklaus.

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