Anderson was born in 1961 in
Wilmington, Delaware, where he grew up. He was the son of
Major League Baseball player
Harry Anderson, and both his mother, Gail, and brother, Todd, also won state
golf championships. Anderson started competing in golf at around age eight. In 1977, at the age of 15, he won the Delaware Junior Championship over Eric Thomas in what
The News Journal called a "37-hole marathon". He was a member of the
Wilmington Country Club. Afterwards, he began attending the
University of Virginia, competing for the
Virginia Cavaliers men's golf team. Outside of Virginia, he competed at the Delaware Amateur in 1980, placing fifth, and then placed third at the same competition in 1981. The same year, he won the Delaware Open, only the sixth amateur to win the competition. He received the 1983 Annual Award from the Delaware State Golf Association and was named that year's Delaware Athlete of the Year by the
Delaware Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association. He won the Delaware Open again in 1988, a fourth title in 1990, and his fifth in 1992. He competed on the Canadian and South African PGA tours in 1988, and in 1991, he was the winner of the PGA of America National Match Play Championship. The following year, he won the Delaware Amateur championship. He finished his career as one of Delaware's most successful golfers, and
Golf Digest ranked him one of the state's three greatest golfers. Anderson was active in the community, serving on the board for the organization
First Tee – Delaware, and being a supporter of the
Special Olympics. He had a daughter. Anderson died on April 29, 2023, at the age of 61. He was posthumously inducted into the
Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame later that year. ==References==