Eric Otten

Oh no!  I go away for a few days and this???  What more can be said?  Peace and comfort to Sue and all his loved ones.  We loved him too.  Toward the end, we had a couple of conversations about his illness and the troubles he had, and it was obvious that it was digging at him but that he was facing it with a grin that said "you can take my body, you can't have my spirit."  In that, he was an enormous positive influence on how I face my own physical troubles and I'll always be grateful for that lesson.  And I'll always giggle snort when I think of him.  There aren't many folks who can be that fully human and that damn funny at the same time.  RIP, Noonan.

 
cynic said:
For anyone not familiar, the Evans Scholars Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Golf, Illinois that provides full tuition and housing college scholarships to golf caddies. Operated by the Western Golf Association, the Evans Scholars Foundation has helped more than 10,600 caddies graduate from college since its creation in 1930.
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Seconded and contributed.

Through Mrs. Toadroller, many years ago, we had dinner with her co-worker, whose husband had been an early Evans Scholar recipient (1940s?) and who had carried for a pro on the younger, smaller, post-war PGA tour (everything was black and white film in those days) whose name escapes me but was recognizable to me at the time.  My eldest, at the time a precocious 4-year-old golfer, was enthralled by those stories and eventually did some good caddying of his own.

Cheers, Caddie!  Cheers!

 
I’m very late seeing this. I loved Caddie. Many non-sensical pms from each of us back and forth over the years. His sense of humour was in a weird league of my own. RIP good sir!

 
I did a deep dive into my photo archive this morning, and found these pictures of Caddie. These were taken on May 3, 2008. RIP, friend.

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I just stumbled onto a quite extended PM conversation we were having as he was packing his things to leave, so to speak.  Damn.  Just...damn.

 
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