Pearce, at 41, starting all over - The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (original) (raw)
CROMWELL, Conn. -- Eddie Pearce first had a golf club placed in his hands by the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias when he was an infant in Tampa, and the world of golf soon became his oyster. He was shooting in the 60s by the time he was 12, and he played in the US Juniors, US Amateur and US Open in the same year, 1968, when he was 16 and life sure was fun.
He was hustling matches in Florida for anywhere from 200to200 to 200to1,000, and he never lost anything because he had backers with cash. He won the Florida Open when he was a senior in high school, went to Wake Forest, left after his sophomore year against the advice of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and legendary coach Jesse Haddock, …
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