Dudley Doust John Hopkins writes: Those of you who remember Dudley Doust, the enquiring and engaging American who was the golf correspondent of The Sunday Times immediately after the great Henry Longhurst until I took over in the autumn of 1980, may not have seen...
Frank Butler, a great all-round sports writer and editor who often appeared on the golf scene, died on the New Year weekend following a fall at home in Chislehurst. He was 89 and leaves three sons and a daughter. He was elected a member of the Association in 1958 and...
Maurice “Dick” Severino of Saratoga Springs and his German Shepard Gallant in a bobsled at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid. Severino was a member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team and Gallant served as the mascot and accompanied the team to the Olympics at...
Herbert Warren Wind – 1916- 2005 Herb Warren Wind, the distinguished writer on golf for The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated, died in May at the age of 88. He had been a member of the Association since 1973. Wind was the man who coined the term ‘Amen Corner’ at...
Anders Janson was a respected magazine editor in Sweden who joined the Association in 1995. He regularly attended events on the continent, especially in the early 90s, but his death last month followed a five-year battle with cancer. Goran Zachrisson pays this...
It is with great regret that I announce the deaths of two members of the Association, Ian MacNiven and Anders Janson (See seperate entry). Ian had been a member for over 40 years having joined the Association in 1962. He died at the age of 79 in Western General...
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