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As I wrote in an obituary for this week’s Golf World, Myers involvement in golf went well beyond coaching. He was a Master PGA professional and served on the rules committee for both the USGA and the PGA of America. He was an official at the Masters from 1995 to 2003. He also helped put together a series of golf tips/lessons that were televised internationally.

As for college golf, Myers served as a past president of the Golf Coaches Association of America (the GCAA inducted him into their hall of fame in 1986) and chairman of the NCAA Men’s Golf Committee. In recent years, he helped create dialogue between the USGA and NCAA in order to get the amateur status guidelines of the two organizations more in line with each other. I had the pleasure of talking about his work the past few years and found his joy in working with these two groups to be refreshing and humble.

People inside the Duke community and …