grahamg
Old codger
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Not sure whether this has been commented upon on this forum, but Peter Alliss, the great golf commentator has passed away aged eighty nine.
I first remember watching him play the game of golf in the 1960s, although he made the UK & Ireland Ryder cup team a year before I was born in 1953, (following on from his own father, another professional golfer).
He developed a case of "the yips", destroying the smoothness of his putting stroke, and fairly quickly started his career as a commentator, with his wonderful deep voice, very relaxed manner, and surfeit of humour making him popular wherever he went, and this of course meant the three majors held in the USA.
He was very appreciative of the skills of Ballesteros, and Faldo, both when coming to the fore as very young men, and all the great US golfers were around then too, rightly known as "legends of the game", Jack Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson, Trevino (Texmex), and further back, or those following on like Tiger, since they all retired up to the present day, all were admired.
His exploits on a pro-celebrity golf show in the UK he compered, and commented upon, introduced so many of us to the magic of golf, (and its frustrations), what more can you say, RIP perhaps.
I first remember watching him play the game of golf in the 1960s, although he made the UK & Ireland Ryder cup team a year before I was born in 1953, (following on from his own father, another professional golfer).
He developed a case of "the yips", destroying the smoothness of his putting stroke, and fairly quickly started his career as a commentator, with his wonderful deep voice, very relaxed manner, and surfeit of humour making him popular wherever he went, and this of course meant the three majors held in the USA.
He was very appreciative of the skills of Ballesteros, and Faldo, both when coming to the fore as very young men, and all the great US golfers were around then too, rightly known as "legends of the game", Jack Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson, Trevino (Texmex), and further back, or those following on like Tiger, since they all retired up to the present day, all were admired.
His exploits on a pro-celebrity golf show in the UK he compered, and commented upon, introduced so many of us to the magic of golf, (and its frustrations), what more can you say, RIP perhaps.
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