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IN MEMORIUM: BOB LABBANCE

Though he spent little time mixing with the world of professional golf, the game lost one of its greatest friends and historians when Bob Labbance passed away this past weekend after an all-too-short battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease.  A Vermonter for as long as I knew him, Bob’s writing résumé covered a great deal of ground, including the guidebooks for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine public-access courses, numerous club histories throughout the region and, most recently, a pair of wonderfully diverse titles that summarized well the range of his knowledge: The Life and Work of Wayne Stiles (an attractive and detailed catalog of the underrated Golden Age designer’s career) and The Vardon Invasion: Harry’s Triumphant 1900 American Tour, a long-overdue title that I told Bob, enviously, that I wish I had written – but I doubt I could have done it as well.
 
Yet beyond his huge literary contributions, Bob meant an even larger amount to me personally, this despite the fact that we never actually met face-to-face.  The reason for this was simple.  Much of my own golfing past lies in New England, where I went to college, worked for a number of years in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and enjoyed the chance to play so many of the region’s little-known Golden Age courses that Bob so ably chronicled.  But 17 years ago I moved to Los Angeles – about as far from all those quirky old New England designs as it gets.  Almost immediately I pined for the Old Country (and still occasionally do), and it was Bob who always kept me in touch, sending copies of his regional magazines, and faithfully answering whatever questions my own research led me to ask regarding one ancient New England track or another.
 
A whole lot of people in the golfing world will miss Bob Labbance, but in a strange way, none more than me.
 
New England, which Bob kept right at my fingertips all of these years, now feels a million miles away.

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