Former Amateur Golf Star Dies at 78
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Harvie Ward, a two-time U.S. Amateur champion and a top teaching pro whose clients included the late Payne Stewart, has died after a long illness.
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ERNIE ELS was as good as his word. On Friday, when he led the American Express Championship by two strokes after 36 holes, he said it was time he rededicated himself to golf after being overshadowed by Vijay Singh.
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Ken MacAfee, who played for the Giants in the 1950s, has died. He was 77.MacAfee had what was thought to be a heart attack July 4 while playing golf and was pronounced dead later at a hospital in Brockton, Mass., said Natalie Melo of the Conley Funeral and Cremation Service.MacAfee, an end, played for the Giants from 1954-58, a team spokesman said.His son, Ken, a former Notre Dame star and college football Hall of Famer, also played in the N.F.L.
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DENNIS, Mass. -- Boston Marathon legend, and two-time race champion, Johnny Kelly, has died at the age of 97. The nephew of the former Olympian, Dave DeLong, said Kelly died Wednesday night at a nursing home on Cape Cod.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland at the age of 64, his close friend Gardar Sverrisson told AFP on Friday.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a leading player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as ambassador to the United Nations, has died at the age of 80.
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Michelle Wie had reason to feel old, and it had nothing to do with sore wrists and high scores. On her way to Pine Needles for the U.S. Women's Open, she drove past Legacy Golf Links, where the 17-year-old from Hawaii played her first tournament on the mainland at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links.
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Golfing great Byron Nelson, who won   an unprecedented 11 successive PGA Tour events during 1945,   died on Tuesday at the age of 94.
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Steve Duplantis, a popular PGA Tour caddie known for bringing out the best in his players, was killed early Wednesday when he was struck by a taxi while crossing a street.
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BROCKTON -- He has won the Massachusetts Amateur Championship twice, the second title some 22 years ago. The first time, Steve Tasho was a young golfer whose chief priority was getting better at the sport he loved. Beginning today at Concord Country Club, the now 48-year-old Easton resident will try to rekindle the magic he generated in 1981 and '85.
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Bill Drohen is sick of being a bridesmaid at the Massachusetts Amateur Championship. The 34-year-old, who plays out of Bradford Country Club, has finished in the semifinals three times. Since the third time wasn't the charm, he's hoping this one will be.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, has died, a friend of the musician said on Monday. He was 82.
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Out on the golf course in Sunday's final round of the Tour Championship, the ongoing story of human athletic skill was being provided by Tiger Woods.
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By Steve Ford  Not all the talk around Victoria National Golf Club has centered around the USGA Senior Amateur Championship that runs through Thursday.
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George Burger, a former political consultant who became vice president of the PGA Tour's new FedExCup competition, died of complications from bacterial spinal meningitis. He was 50.
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Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer led   the tributes for golfing great Byron Nelson, who died at his   ranch in Texas on Tuesday at the age of 94.
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Bobby Fischer, the eccentric genius who became America's only world chess champion by humbling the Soviet Union's best but who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities, has died at 64.