Jim Hunt (columnist) - Golf Adventures

Golf Adventures

• One year in the press room at Glen Abbey Golf Course, the golf writer for the New York Times went to the media director and asked for his seat to be moved because “there’s some loudmouth sitting beside me.” That was Hunt, who never stopped yapping or laughing.

• One year at The Masters, we were walking past the clubhouse and Arnold Palmer walked past, stopped and said: “Hi Jim.” Hunt looked at him and said: “Do I know you?”

• There was another year when Hunt took Masters chairman Jack Stephens to task. At the annual press conference with the heads of Augusta, Shaky said: “You invite Japanese, Spaniards, Frenchmen, Australians but you never invite Canadians. Why is that?” Stephens conferred for a moment with a couple of others and then said: “We consider them North Americans.”