Golfnotes

Opening our website dedicated to golf, we cannot but pay our tribute to Payne Stewart, killed at age 42, in a plane crash on October 25th 1999.

Payne Stewart was not only a great star on golf courses winning among others twice the US Open and playing five Ryder Cup. He was also a gentleman. Everybody knows he loved his country demonstrated through his penchant wearing stars and stripes.

But at the press conference following the last Dunhill Cup at St Andrews, he was one of those being apologizing for the over-exuberant celebrations of the American Ryder Cup team at the 17th hole at Brookline. Colin Montgomerie who has been insulted at Brookline testified: ”After the match, Payne went to my wife, Eimear, and hugged her saying; I’m very sorry. That should not have happened”.

Payne was also a family man. He always has associated his wife Tracey to each victory and he loved his two children 14 year-year-old Chelsea and 10-year-old Aaron: “I have tried to teach them the right things”. Yes, doing the right things has always been Payne’s motto.