Bruce Edwards, RIP
By reading the inimitable Lorne Rubenstein's golf column in this morning's Globe and Mail, I learned of the death of Bruce Edwards, the long-time trusty caddy of legend Tom Watson. Edwards had been struggling with Lou Gehrig's disease and finally succumbed to this terrible illness Wednesday night. Amazingly, Watson managed to play yesterday. I got teary-eyed watching Bruce on Watson's bag last year as Watson nearly won the U.S. Senior Open. Diseases like Gehrig's are so sad because you see the person physically deteriorate right in front of you and there is absolutely nothing that can be done. There will be a dark cloud over Augusta this weekend because of the loss of Bruce Edwards. (A new book has just been released on his life, which I'm going to pick up.)
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 2:27 PM