Mike Brannan

As a young golfer, Mike Brannan made his mark, winning championships on the national stage. The North Salinas High grad was ranked by Golf Digest as one of the top 10 all-time greatest junior golfers. At 15 years and 8 months old in 1971, Brannan won the U.S. Junior Amateur championship. The record stood for 20 years until Tiger Woods won the championship at 15 years and 6 months old. Brannan was a two-time state amateur champion. He was on the PGA Tour for four years, where he finished runner-up at the 1979 Houston Open. He was reinstated as an amateur in the 1980s and won the Northern California Senior Open in 2012. Brannan died in 2013 while employed as a sales representative for PING.