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:
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“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)
“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)