(06-20-2018 08:42 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  A couple other sports deaths the past few days in the golf world. Peter Thomson from Australia died at age 88. He was a pretty good tour golfer way back in the 1950's and 1960's, and then did well on the senior tour in the 1980's. I think he might have been a TV commentator as well?
And then I didn't notice it until just now but Hubert Green died a couple days ago of throat cancer. He won a couple of majors in the 1970's and 1980's.

I almost killed Hubert Green when we were both about 16 or so. I was on the practice tee before a junior tournament, and he had walked out in front of the tee to pick up a few balls. The head came off my club on contact and went flying down the range. As he bent over to pick up a couple of balls, my clubhead came flying right where his head would have been had he been standing. We both breathed huge sighs of relief.

Several years later, in a tournament at LSU, I hooked a drive into an adjoining fairway and damn near hit him. When I came over to my ball, he gave me a pretty good ribbing, asking if I were still trying to kill him.