Chapter 10: An Angry Mother
Sometimes you fall into a good thing. This happened to me at the U.S.Open in Houston. I generally liked to look for outsiders in the early rounds of a major golf tournament. At this tourney I came up with Orville Moody, whose background playing golf in the army intrigued me. I interviewed him before the first round so it didn't hurt that he had a good opening round and was in contention. The significant thing for me in telling his story was that it laid out for the reader what a boondoggle golf was for some of the army brass. People would begrudge any spending for social programs but would let the war industries have free rein. Moody's description of golf extravagancies fit in perfectly with later word of $500 army toilets and cost overruns by the military. Moody went on to win the tournament. By then he was a bit more wary about what he should reveal about his army days. When he was interviewed after winning he was reluctant to talk about his days with the generals. The columns succeeding the golf pieces are about officials and people who complain about them. I have never heard a winning team complain about the officials. Has anybody?
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