Sep 24, 2021 · Harry Potter star Tom Felton was carried off a Wisconsin golf course after collapsing during a celebrity match ahead of the Ryder Cup. The actor, who turned 34 on Wednesday, experienced a "medical...
Jul 06, 2021 · Golf pro Gene Siller was killed Saturday afternoon at the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw, Georgia, because he witnessed a crime, Cobb County police said.
May 12, 2010 · INSIDE STORY: Young Golf Pro's Shocking and Mysterious Death Erica Blasberg, 25, is found dead in her home – and friends want to know what happened By Mark Gray Updated May 12, 2010 07:00 PM
Oct 13, 2015 · Madrid - Bing Crosby, the crooner of beautiful songs who dominated show business for three generations of lovers around the world, died here yesterday of a heart attack after completing a round of...
Payne Stewart | |
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Full name | William Payne Stewart |
Born | January 30, 1957 Springfield, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | October 25, 1999 (aged 42) over Mina, South Dakota, U.S. |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Jack Newton | |
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Personal information | |
Turned professional | 1969 |
Retired | 1983 |
Former tour(s) | PGA Tour of Australasia European Tour PGA Tour |
A pro golfer who was fatally shot on a country club golf course in Georgia, near where two other men were found dead in the bed of a pickup truck, had witnessed a crime before he was killed, authorities said Tuesday.
A pro golfer who was fatally shot on a country club golf course in Georgia, near where two other men were found dead in the bed of a pickup truck, had witnessed a crime before he was killed, authorities said Tuesday. The body of Gene Siller, an employee at the Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw — about 30 miles northwest ...
Police also discovered a Ram 3500 pickup truck on the green that contained the bodies of two men, one of whom was identified as Paul Pierson, the truck’s registered owner. A third deceased man had not been identified. They had died from gunshots and were found in the truck bed, police said.
One of the most dashing and creative players of his - or any other - era, Ballesteros was the driving force behind the emergence of a proud, competitive European golf scene in the 1970s and 1980s. And he bedeviled the Americans every two years in Ryder Cups .
Blasberg was considered an up-and-comer from a young age, drawing attention for her game but also for her California-girl looks. She was , many believed, the next "it girl" in golf.
The golf course was Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa; the cause of death was multiple stab wounds. She was 22 years old. Barquin Arozamena, a member of the Iowa Hawkeyes women's golf team, was the 2018 European Amateur Champion, and played in the 2018 U.S. Women's Open.
Brent Kelley is an award-winning sports journalist and golf expert with over 30 years in print and online journalism. Once a year, in late October, the thoughts of golf fans and golf media turn to Payne Stewart, whose life was tragically cut short in that month of 1999 when he perished in a plane crash.
Updated February 04, 2020. Once a year, in late October, the thoughts of golf fans and golf media turn to Payne Stewart, whose life was tragically cut short in that month of 1999 when he perished in a plane crash. Unfortunately, Stewart's is not the only death of a golfer that was tragic and too soon. Here are 23 champions from the history of golf ...
The tragedy of Stewart's death is among the most recent on this list; he died at the age of 42 on Oct. 25, 1999, in a plane crash. It was a bizarre incident that played out over several hours on television, as cable news networks tracked a plane whose occupants weren't flying up the middle of the United States, seemingly without human control.
Somewhere around 9:30 a.m., investigators later determined, the plane suffered a catastrophic loss of air pressure, incapacitating the six passengers, including the two pilots.
While numerous reports have speculated to the cause of death, police are not commenting other than to say that they are a conducted a death investigation, a standard procedure.
A former resident of Corona, Calif., Blasberg was a junior golf star having been honored as a two-time All-American from 2003-04, the 2003 NCAA Freshman of the Year and 2003 Pac-10 Player of the Year while at University of Arizona.
She turned professional in June of 2004 and won once on the Duramed FUTURES Tour before qualifying for the LPGA Tour in 2005. Her best year was 2008 when she tied for eighth at the SBS Open in Hawaii and over $113,000 in winnings. This season, though, Blasberg had played in only the Tres Marias Championship, where she tied for 44th.
His annual $150,000 Bing Crosby Invitation Tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif., was one of the best known golfing events in the world and he always made the sports pages by clowning it up ...
This story was written by Amador Marin.) Madrid - Bing Crosby, the crooner of beautiful songs who dominated show business for three generations of lovers around the world, died here yesterday of a heart attack after completing a round of golf. "Der Bingle" was 73, and his death produced shock and grief among millions of devoted fans.
Origin of Name "Bing". Bing Crosby was born May 2, 1904, in Tacoma, Wash., the fourth of seven children of Harry Lowe Crosby, a book keeper, and Kate Harrigan Crosby. The youngest of the children, Bob, also was to achieve fame as a singer and bandleader. He acquired the nickname Bing while still a child.
As a youth Bing entered Gonzaga University in Spokane , Wash. , where the family had moved, to study law. He remained for three years, long enough to form a dance combo to play at school events and later a twosome with another student, Al Rinker. Advertisement.
Singer and actor Bing Crosby's real name is Harry Lillis Crosby Jr. (Dan Farrell) In 1935 he began a 10-year run on the Kraft Music Hall, a weekly hour long radio show that he usually carried on while puffing a pipe and lounging casually in flamboyant attire that became the butt of many of the program's jokes.
To the end, Crosby was fun-loving and informal Juan Gandaras, 33, a Spanish businessman who had lunched with Crosby and then followed the foursome as a spectator, said Crosby was wearing an old red sweater and a white sunhat. Bing had been sensitive in recent years about his increasing baldness.
Hope and Crosby were the stars, with Dorothy Lamour, of a string of "Road" movies, including the "Road to Morocco" - from which they extracted one of their biggest hit records, the title song.
(CNN) Three days after a golf pro was shot dead on an Atlanta-area course and two others were found dead in a pickup truck there, police still are hunting for clues to whoever killed them.
PGA of America President Jim Richerson also issued a statement: "We are truly heartbroken to hear about the senseless murder that took place yesterday at Pine Tree Country Club in Georgia that took the life of PGA member Gene Siller," the statement said.
The three people slain were among of at least 150 people killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the US during the Fourth of July weekend. Police said Gene Siller was shot after somebody drove a pickup truck onto the golf course.
MADRID, Spain, Oct. 14—Bing Crosby, whose crooning voice and relaxed humor entertained millions around the world for half a century, died of a heart attack today after a round of golf outside Madrid. He was 73 years old. Mr. Crosby, an avid golfer, collapsed after finishing a game at the La Moraleja club with three Spanish ...
Crosby met Wilma Winifred Wyatt, a rising, young film star known professionally as Dixie Lee. They were married on Sept. 29, 1930, and were to have four sons, all of whom became professional entertainers.
Harry Lillis Crosby parlayed a burbling baritone voice, a relaxed manner and sense of business acumen into millions of dollars and a place in the front rank of world‐famous entertainers.
In all, Mr. Crosby sold more than 300 million records and in his later years.1 when he stopped making movies, he continued nonetheless to attract enormous public attention with appearances on television and at the Bing Crosby Pro‐Amateur Golf Tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif.
Paul Whiteman, who caught their act in 1927, at the Metropolitan Theater in Los Angeles, hired them as singing act for his band. Later, Harry Barris joined them to form “The Rhythm Boys.”.
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