A class guy and wonderful person.
We shall always miss him.
A thought might be to rename the Dixie Cup...The Tiger Cup???
Done.
Tiger was my first GCA buddy in person. He lived in Lafayette on I-10 and had a condo in Navarre, FL, about half an hour east of me. We somehow got connected in 2001 and he suggested a visit the next time he came through. We played the pre-Ivan Pensacola CC and had a great time. The next week, ever the sport, he called to say he made some tee times at Bandon and wanted to play the then-new Pacific Dunes. My brother and I rendezvoused with him there and had a great time.
We traveled together a lot, playing courses like Yale, the Creek and Friars Head, NGLA. Painswick in an early Buda Cup with a side trip to Royal Porthcawl. Royal Cinque Ports in a later Buda. Pasatiempo in a Kings Putter. Cypress Point twice together, no finer days although the weather was backward caps one day in a match we won against two golf architects. He was always fun to travel with, a generous guy with shallow pockets.
The second time we played Cypress was at the end of his first recovery from the throat cancer. I was never prouder of anyone than I was of John that day. He was striking the ball superbly, and struck long full shots onto the 11th, 14th and 16th greens. It was magic.
Our last round together was last year at his beloved Champions in Houston. he will surely be missed there and at all his other clubs, MPCC, Olympic Club, Mountain Lake and his home club, Oakbourne in Lafayette. Once I warned him about the 14-club limit.
Katie is the greatest. I have no idea how she was able to keep up with her law school studies while so much time was spent on her dad's health care. I know she has a wide streak of Tiger's indomitable nature in her, she will do well and go far.