ORVILLE MOODY, THE 1969 U.S. OPEN CHAMPION, died today in Texas. He was 74. Reports didn’t give a cause of death, but he had been in poor health for most of the year after suffering a massive stroke.A former caddie informed me of Orville’s death vi…
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Riding Shotgun with Orville Moody
August 8th, 2008 — , Billy Casper, Bob Goalby, Champions Tour, Don January, Doug Ford, Doug Sanders, Dow Finsterwald, Gene Littler, Jack Fleck, Lee Elder, Orville Moody, U.S. Open, U.S. Senior Open from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
Dow Finsterwald Photo Gallery
August 5th, 2008 — , Dow Finsterwald, PGA Championship, Ryder Cup from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
AS A FOLLOW-UP TO MY PIECE on Dow Finsterwald, I want to point you to a photo gallery I ran across at PGA.com. There are a lot of neat photos of Dow, from his playing days to the present day:Dow photo galleryI failed to mention in my previous post that…
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August 4th, 2008 — , Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Dow Finsterwald, Gene Littler, MIke Souchak, PGA Championship, PGA Tour, U.S. Senior Open from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
FIFTY YEARS AGO AFTER A LONG HISTORY as a match-play tournament, the PGA Championship became a stroke-play event. The 1958 PGA Championship was also the first major to be televised (although parts of other majors had been televised).The winner of that …
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July 12th, 2008 — , Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Bob Rosburg, Dow Finsterwald, Gay Brewer, Gene Littler, MIke Souchak, Mark Calcavecchia, Orville Moody, PGA Tour, Tommy Bolt, U.S. Open from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
LAST MONDAY NEAR THE END of an hour-long phone conversation, a retired West Coast sportswriter who shares my interest in the old-time PGA Tour players said what I often think: They won’t be around forever.Three days later 15-time tour winner Mike Sou…
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April 19th, 2008 — , Champions Tour, Charlie Sifford, Dow Finsterwald, Fred Hawkins, Gene Littler, Jack Fleck, Lee Elder, Legends of Golf, PGA Tour from The Armchair Golfer @ ARMCHAIR GOLF BLOG
(Jack Fleck denied Ben Hogan a record fifth U.S. Open title.)It began with Jack Fleck.A golf friend I made through this blog wrote me and said I might be interested in talking to the unlikely man who beat Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff to win the 1955…
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