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IN MEMORIUM: DON CARLSON

Though not quite a household name in the golfing world, my friend Don Carlson – a former Southern California golf administrator and for 64 years a member at the Riviera Country Club – passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles at age 94.  A marshal behind the 18th green for several decades worth of Los Angeles Opens, Mr. Carlson, a longtime high school baseball and basketball coach in Los Angeles, and a long-ago basketball star at Drake University, was also a talented golfer, shooting his age both at Riviera and in an International Seniors Amateur Golfing Society event at Biarritz, France in 1997.  But beyond these measurable accomplishments, Mr. Carlson was a grand, old-fashioned gentleman whose firsthand, on-the-spot knowledge of Los Angeles golf – he knew everyone from Babe Zaharias to the now-famous Mysterious Montague – forever proved a walking encyclopedia for my own historical research.

Throughout Southern California golfing circles and especially at Riviera, he will be dearly missed.

Posted on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 02:48AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments5 Comments | References4 References

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Daniel,

Thank you for your wonderful tribute to my grandfather. I am Don's second grandchild and so proud to be a member of the Carlson family. My grandmother, mother, aunt and uncle were all by his side Sunday when he passed away. He was loved by so many people who will never forget him.

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