“All I know most surely about morality and obligation I owe to football”,
I remember Payne Stewart
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Michael Arkush, Cumberland House, Nashville, 2000.
The book is a tribute to Payne Stewart “by those who knew him best”. Stewart was one of the world's top golfers who died in a plane crash aged 42. Ten chapters take you through his life.
One chapter is entitled “A new Payne”. The chapter begins by noting that in the late 1990s and new Payne Stewart had emerged” less arrogant and more giving". There are stories from other players - Scott Simpson, Calvin Peete. The US PGA tour chaplain, Larry Moody is quoted in a longer account of what happened. There are pieces by two of the clergy at First Baptist Church in Orlando.
Stewart was deeply moved when his friend and fellow golfer, Paul Azinger, was diagnosed with cancer. Stuart is quoted on the back cover of the book: m” the one thing that Paul taught me. Golf isn't everything. God is going to call us home sometime I'm going to a special place when I die”.