Category: AGW Members In Lasting Memory (N – Z)
-
-
George Simms – AGW Member 1962 – ?
Note – Looking to obtain details of George’s career etc. Contract email: email hidden; JavaScript is required (2023)
-
Herbert Warren Wind – AGW Member 1973-2005
Herbert Warren Wind – Born 1916, Died 2005, AGW Member 1973-2005 Wikipedia Early years Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind began golf at age seven at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, and played whenever he could. He graduated from Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[2] He earned a master’s degree in English Literature from…
-
AGW Member Ian Riach Passes Away – 1937-2023
Ian Riach was aged 85-years when he passed away in January 2023 and having been born in 1937, a year prior to the AGW was founded. His wife Irene indicated Ian passed away two months shy of their 60th wedding anniversary. Ian joined the AGW in 1987 meaning he had been a proud member for 36-years.…
-
Tim Rosaforte Tributes (1955-2022)
Sad news soon after the New Year learning AGW member Tim Rosaforte passed away on January 11th, 2022 . Tim was aged 66. ‘Rosie, as he affectionately known, was born on October 25, 1955, in Mount Kisco, New York State. He first got into journalism in 1977 working at the Tampa Times and later moving…
-
Ben Wright Tributes (AGW Member 1958 – 2021)
Ben Wright (September 9, 1932 – August 29, 2021) Ben Wright, who broadcast golf and other sports for CBS for 23 years, died on August 29, 2021 from complications post-surgery. Ben was a broadcast golf announcer and other sports for CBS TV for 23 years. He was born to Reginald Arthur Bentley-Wright and Gwendolyn Fraser…
-
Goran Zachrisson – Henrik Stenson Leads Tributes To Former AGW President
Former AGW President Goran Zachrisson was born on 14th May, 1938. From 1964 to 1967, Goran was Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Svensk Golf. From 1966, he was a commentator for Swedish TV at the Open Championships and many other golf tournaments. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Viasat, where he continued his passion in reporting on…
-
Bill Robertson – AGW Member 1978 – 2020. Members & Friends Tributes.
Bill Robertson (1943 – 2020) The AGW was very saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Bill Robertson on Friday, 6th March, 2020. Bill had been a member of the AGW since 1978 and his life clearly touched many, many members of the AGW as the following tributes so very…
-
Colm Smith – AGW Member 1971 – 2018. Member Tributes
Tributes to Colm Smith (Born 13th July, 1940 – Passed Away 30th November, 2018; Member of the Association of Golf Writers 1971 to 2018). Colm’s funeral was significantly at ‘half-past’ 10 last Monday (December 3rd) at the Church of the Holy Cross in Dundrum and where five years earlier in 2013 his wife, Helen’s life…
-
Christopher Smart (1950 – 2018) – Tributes At His Passing.
Christopher Blake Smart – born 1950 and passed away 12th October, 2018. He had been a member of the AGW since 1987. Chris was passionate about everything Wales sport and particularly Welsh golf and it led to him establishing the Mid-Glamorgan Sports Agency. Amateur golf seemed to be Chris’ passion and in ‘surfing’ the net Chris…
