Olympics
Joe Simpson wasn’t having the best of Father’s Days. His bad back was misbehaving.
June 24, 1987
Sports
Never mention rope in the house of the hanged. Never mention water in the house of the drowned.
June 18, 1991
I told you so. No way Olympic Club was going to let Tom Watson win a U.S. Open on it.
June 22, 1987
Scott Simpson birdied three holes in a row and upset Lanny Wadkins, 65-68, in the quarterfinals of the Seiko Tucson Match Play golf championship at Tucson.
Nov. 2, 1986
The uphill putt just didn’t have enough steam, stopping a foot short of the cup.
Aug. 9, 2013
The U.S.
Jan. 15, 1988
Scott Simpson apparently was on his way to winning the U.S.
June 17, 1991
Payne Stewart said that the Hazeltine National Golf Club showed all of its teeth Saturday in the third round of the U.S.
June 16, 1991
Scott Simpson shot the best round of his PGA Tour career, a 10-under-par 62 Thursday that gave him a one-shot lead after the first round of the Hawaiian Open.
Jan. 18, 1991
Just as they were about to put a lily on its chest and dump it in the Chicago River or bury it out behind a cornfield, Medinah on Saturday got up out of its coffin like Dracula and began to bite people in the neck.
June 17, 1990