Elizabeth Price-Fisher was born 17th January, 1923 and passed away 23rd May, 2008 Golfer-turned-golf writer Elizabeth Price-Fisher, who played in six Curtis Cup matches between 1950 and 1960 and was British women’s amateur golf champion in 1959, died today at...
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...
It is with great regret that I report the death of Ted Ostermann, a member of the Association since 1963. Ted, who had been suffering from cancer for two years, died on May 13, 2004 his 88th birthday, in Kitzbuehel. A single-figure golfer for much of his life, Ted...
It is with much regret that I record the death of John Reece who joined the AGW in 1984. John, who died at home in March, 2004 was aged 88 and had spent almost 70 years writing about golf. He had been a member of the Association for 20 years. Earlier in the year, John...
Louis T Stanley, who became a member in 1948 but subsequently left the Association, died in January, 2004 at the age of 92. As well as a career in motor racing administration, Louis wrote many books, around 20 of them on golf. The 1991 edition of his “History of Golf”...
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