On this day in 1999, the golfing world lost Payne Stewart. I personally will never forget this...I was working as a Greenkeeper on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Just a week and a half prior, Stewart played in his final professional event, the Alfred Dunhill Cup on the Old Course that October. What a fitting venue for his final event! I remember talking to him at length about Penn State Football- he knew I was there on an internship and I was really surprised at how friendly he was. To this day, I have a St. Andrews golf flag hanging in my den that was signed by Payne Stewart with a personal message on it.