[1] Born in Pinebluff, North Carolina, Ferree grew up in Winston-Salem and graduated from Richard J. Reynolds High School.

[2][3] Ferree played college golf at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

[4] He spent most of his thirties and forties as the director of golf at Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

[6] Ferree was later a club pro and joined the Senior PGA Tour at age fifty in 1981.

[1] He was chosen by PGA Commissioner Deane Beman to be the model for the knickers-wearing player on the Senior Tour's logo.