Alan Shipnuck > Quotes

“Golf probably saved his life. On September 11, 2001, he was attempting to qualify for the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship instead of sitting in his office on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Sandler O’Neill lost sixty-six of its eighty-three New York City employees on that dark day. Dunne insisted that the company pay ten years of salary to the family of each victim and cover the college tuition of the seventy-six children who had been left behind. Decades later, he was still known to weep when discussing 9/11 with friends.”
― Alan Shipnuck, Rory: The Heartache and Triumph of Golf's Most Human Superstar

“Norman claimed his first European Tour title in 1977, at age twenty-two, shooting a course-record 66 in the final round to win the Martini International by three. On a circuit populated by scoundrels and ruffians, he stood out from his peers with his sobering focus. “For the Aussies in the generation before Greg, it was almost a badge of honor to drink ten beers and then shoot sixty-eight the next morning,” says Mike Clayton, a fellow Australian pro and contemporary of Norman. “He took it seriously. He wasn’t out there to make friends, really. I never, ever went to dinner with him. I don’t think anyone did. He would get to the course early, put in long hours, and then disappear”
― Alan Shipnuck, LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

“Mickelson ExxonMobil”
― Alan Shipnuck, Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

“Tiger had reached out to the Mickelsons after Amy’s diagnosis, sending a heartfelt text in which he included the sentiment that he hoped doctors would someday find a cure for cancer, which had struck Woods’s father in 1998 and begun his declining”
― Alan Shipnuck, Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar