Hubert Green, Who Won Golf’s U.S. Open Under Threat, Dies at 71

Hubert Green at the par-3 contest preceding the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., in 2016. He participated in the contest long after retiring from competitive golf.Hubert Green, whose unorthodox golf swing helped carry him to 19 PGA Tour victories, including one at the United States Open in 1977, when he continued to play despite learning of a death threat during the final round, died on Tuesday in Birmingham, Ala. He was 71.

The cause was complications of throat cancer, his nephew Andrew Green said.

Green had just finished the 14th hole at the ′77 U.S. Open, at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., when tournament officials told him that a woman had…