This is a sad day. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rosburg once. One of his many friends was a member at Marquette Golf Club, and Rossie came up to visit a few years back and spent a weekend without playing any golf. He did, however, want to check out the new course he'd heard about, called Greywalls.
As the assistant one of my many jobs was to provide tours to prospective members, guests, and anyone else who might be interested in seeing the place, which had then just opened. I drove Mr. Rosburg around the course in our 6-passenger cart, with him sitting right next to me in the front seat. Pointing out all the features I'd mentioned a million times to other visitors seemed so surreal when they were accompanied by that familiar voice in my right ear. I mentioned Mike DeVries's connection to Alister MacKenzie's design style, Mike having spent much of his youth at Crystal Downs, and then noted that Mike had recently done some restoration work at the Meadow Club.
"Do you know the Meadow Club north of San Francisco?" I asked.
He then rattled off about a half dozen tournament victories he'd had at the place, and smiled with a wink in his eye.
I'll always be thankful for that little tour and the chance afterward to buy him a beer.