Thais Baker’s husband, Fred Couples, won his first senior major at the Senior Players Championship and followed this up in July 2012 when he won the Senior Open Championship.
He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2013.
Couples garnered the nickname “Boom Boom” for his long, accurate driving ability off the tee during the prime of his career.
Couples was born in Seattle, Washington, to Tom and Violet (née Sobich) Couples.
His paternal grandparents immigrated from Italy and changed the family name from “Coppola” to “Couples” to make it sound less ethnic, and his mother was of Croatian descent.
