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Pro golfer Arie Irawan found dead Sunday's final round of the PGA Tour Series-China Sanya Championship was canceled after Malaysian pro Arie Irawan was found dead in his hotel room at the age of 28.
Bart Bryant“The PGA TOUR is saddened by the tragic passing of Bart Bryant and our hearts go out to his family and friends during this difficult time,” said PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan.
Bart Bryant, a three-time PGA Tour winner, was killed in a two-vehicle crash on a Florida state highway Tuesday. The golfer was 59. “The PGA Tour family mourns the tragic loss of 3-time TOUR winner Bart Bryant,” the organization said in a tweeted statement today.
Ian McGregor, caddie for Scottish pro Alastair Forsyth, died during Sunday's final round of the Madeira Islands Open.
1983In an interview with Golf Digest in 2008, Newton detailed the July 24, 1983, accident, noting that it was dark and raining at the time, and he was trying to board the small plane with a handful of friends. He failed to get the attention of the pilot, who was moving the plane and mistakenly hit the golfer.
25—A Learjet carrying professional golfer Payne Stewart and at least four others streaked uncontrolled for thousands of miles across the heart of the country today, its occupants apparently unconscious or already dead, before it plunged nose first and crashed in a field near this north-central South Dakota hamlet.
Former professional golfer Bart Bryant, who once beat Tiger Woods to win the biggest paycheck of his career, has been killed in a car crash in Florida. Bryant died when a truck slammed into his SUV while he was stopped in a line of vehicles on a central Florida road for a construction crew, authorities said.
Tim Rosaforte, one of golf's most accomplished journalists, died Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., of Alzheimer's disease. He was 66. Rosaforte was one of the most trusted and familiar on-air reporters in golf at the time of his retirement from Golf Channel in 2019.
Eduardo Romero, the Argentinian tour pro, who played on the European Tour, has died at 67. Telam, Argentina's state-owned news service, cited cancer as the cause of death for the eight-time Euro Tour winner.
IRISH golfer Peter Lawrie last night described as "shocking, absolutely shocking" a decision to resume yesterday's final round of the Madeira Islands Open following the death of Scot Alastair Forsyth's caddie, Ian McGregor, of a suspected heart attack on the ninth hole.
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Newton's golfing career ended prematurely in July 1983 when, aged 33, he lost his right arm and eye after walking into a plane's spinning propeller during a rainstorm. Newton's right arm was severed, he lost sight in his right eye and sustained severe injuries to his abdomen.
The New South Welshman's time on the professional circuit was cut tragically short on July 24, 1983, when he lost his right arm and eye as he walked into the spinning propeller of a light aircraft at Sydney Airport.
Slain Georgia golf pro Gene Siller was someone who could make a bad day brighter, friends say. "This doesn't make any sense," Brian Katrek, a member of Pinetree Country Club in Kennesaw and an anchor of SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, told CNN's "New Day.".
(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.
The shooter then fled, WXIA reported. One of the slain men was Paul Pierson the registered owner of the Ram 3500, police said. The name of the other slain man was not ...
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.
By Kalhan Rosenblatt and Daniel Arkin. Pro golfer Gene Siller was shot and killed at a country club in suburban Atlanta on Saturday, and two other men were found dead inside the bed of a pickup truck on the golf course, the Cobb County Police Department said.
Both men in the truck died of gunshot wounds, police said.
Gene Siller was found with a gunshot wound to the head and two other men were found dead in the bed of a pickup truck, police said.
Siller , a husband and father of two, was reportedly responding to an issue on the golf course's tenth hole when a man in a white truck pulled his vehicle onto a sand trap nearby, according to the Post. When Siller went to talk with the man in the vehicle, he was shot and later died. The suspect has not yet been caught, police said.
Siller, an employee of the club, was found unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The KSU Office of Emergency Management tweeted on Saturday that the suspect "is a Hispanic Male considered armed and dangerous. Suspect is 6'1" and 170 lbs and was last seen wearing a white T-shirt."
Siller , a husband and father of two, was responding to an issue on the course’s 10th hole when a man in a white truck pulled his vehicle onto the sand trap nearby, according to the Post. When Siller went to talk to the man in the pickup, he was shot.
Two other men who were fatally shot had no connection to the country club golf course in Kennesaw, police said.
A third deceased man had not been identified. They had died from gunshots and were found in the truck bed, police said. Siller was killed after seeing a crime involving the two other men, police said in a statement.
July 6, 2021, 1:17 PM PDT. By Antonio Planas. 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.
Pierson and the unidentified man did not appear to have any connection to the country club, police said.
Slain Georgia golf pro Gene Siller was someone who could make a bad day brighter, friends say. Siller, Pinetree's director of golf, was found unresponsive with an "apparent gunshot wound to the head" and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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 suspect then fled, WXIA reported. Police discovered the truck still on the green and found the bodies of two men in the bed of the truck, the release said. Both victims also suffered apparent gunshot wounds, according to police.
3 men, including a golf pro, were found shot to death at a Georgia country club on July Fourth weekend.
The scene of the Pinetree Country Club shooting in Georgia, including the pickup truck the suspect drove.
Shortly after Siller was found dead at the course, officials at the nearby Kennesaw State University tweeted an emergency alert to students, saying there had been a shooting nearby and that police were searching for a Hispanic male suspect, about 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds, who was "considered armed and dangerous." Just before 5 p.m., officials tweeted that there was no longer a "credible threat to the campus."
Slain Georgia golf pro Gene Siller was someone who could make a bad day brighter, friends say - CNN.
Siller, 46, Pinetree's director of golf, was found shot to death Saturday afternoon near the 10th green at the country club north of Atlanta, Cobb County police said. Read More. The pickup truck on the 10th green of the Pinetree Country Club. A club member told CNN affiliate WXIA that Siller went to see why somebody had driven a pickup truck onto ...
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.". Siller's family set up a GoFundMe page to help with finances.
He loved everybody," said Rand Eberhard, a pastor who lives in a neighborhood near Pinetree Country Club and knew Siller. "It's a big void that is left in our community to lose such an important guy.". Eberhard told CNN it would have been in Gene's nature to help someone in need.
Celia Barquin Arozamena. Celia Barquin Arozamena was a student at Iowa State University when she was murdered on a golf course by a stranger on Sept. 17, 2018. The golf course was Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa; the cause of death was multiple stab wounds. She was 22 years old.
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 .
He died in the ambulance before reaching the hospital of an apparent heart attack .
In 2008, not long after playing in his first Champions Tour tournament, Ballesteros fell ill in Spain. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor and eventually underwent four surgeries to try to remove the cancer.
Anderson was born in Scotland but achieved his golf fame in the United States, where he won four of the five U.S. Opens from 1901-05 (1902 was the year he didn't win). He also won the Western Open - the second-biggest pro tournament in the U.S. at the time - four times from 1902 to 1909.
Anderson was a heavy drinker, and that surely played some role in such an early death. Some sources say the official cause of death was epilepsy, but the World Golf Hall of Fame cites arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
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.