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  • Ken Venturi, former U.S. Open champion and broadcaster, dies at age 82

    05/20/2013 1:02:58 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 5 replies
    PGA Tour dot Com ^ | 17 May 2013 | PGA Tour
    Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. "The PGA TOUR joins the world of golf in mourning the loss of one of its most treasured champions and ambassadors, Ken Venturi," PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem said. "His impact on the TOUR and the game itself cannot be overstated. His tremendous accomplishments on the golf course were certainly Hall of Fame worthy on their own, but in Ken one finds a rare example of a golfer whose second career, in television,...
  • Hall of Famer Ken Venturi, 82, dies

    05/17/2013 9:52:30 PM PDT · by FlJoePa · 9 replies
    espn ^ | 5-17-13 | n/a
    Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the past two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and then an intestinal infection that he could no longer fight.