Golf
- Erica Blasberg, 25, LPGA golfer, suicide by asphyxia (2010)
- Heather Farr, 28, LPGA golfer, breast cancer (1993)
- Rod Funseth, 52, Senior PGA Tour golfer, lung cancer (1985)
- Larry Gilbert, 55, Senior PGA Tour golfer, lung cancer (1998)
- Tony Lema, 32, The Open champion, plane crash (1966)
- Young Tom Morris, 24, The Open champion, heart attack (1875)
- Payne Stewart, 42, PGA and U.S. Open champion, plane crash (1999)
- Bert Yancey, 56, seven-time winner on the PGA Tour, suffered a fatal heart attack while competing in a Champions Tour event (1994)
- Babe Zaharias, 45, LPGA golfer, colon cancer (1956)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sportspeople Who Died During Their Careers
Famous quotes containing the word golf:
“And the wind shall say “Here were decent godless people;
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.”
—Frank Butler (1890–1967)
“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)