In emergency times, when social networks for the desires of exclusive are anticipated to deaths, it is certified that there are classes until the last breath. There are deaths in deferred. On Monday he met, through Golfweek, Marion Herrington, who died in December in Charlotte at 75 years of age. Among its merits is to have served for decades as a caddie in the Augusta National and have taken the Ballesteros Severiano Stock Exchange in its first victory in 1980.
With Herrington, one of the last caddies that triumphed subject to the strict policy of Augusta’s masters, the most elitist tournament in the world, which until 1982 forced the guests to hire local assistants – all black -all – during the week of the first big large one of the season. There are only two more lively winners, who continued working despite the opening: Ben Bussey, who won with Craig Stadler in 1982 and Carl Jackson, secondary actor in the double of Ben Crenshaw, 1984 and 1995, and which he always accompanied since 1976. For the 1983 edition, the second win of Seve Black Local Caddies.
For Herrington, the decision made by the president of the Hord Hardin Club, by the pressures of Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson, made him lose the guaranteed income during the Masters week. That was a great suffering for his family, because after the death of his mother, the Caddie had difficulty supporting his five children.
However, Augusta National partners supported him, and no one but David Lilly, a Minnesota businessman, who, when he heard his situation offered him a house. “Tell your wife to choose one. And I don’t care how much it costs.” But Herrington learned that he could opt for a military subsidy and rejected the offer. “Thank you, although I could do help for a corteped.” Lilly bought a machine directly.
Herrington would take almost two decades to take a bag of sticks the week of Augusta Masters. He did it by helping Amateur James Driscoll, in 2001. Before the pandemic, he moved to the neighboring state of South Carolina, where he worked as a caddie at the Sage Valley club.
Merion had the honor of having accompanied the first European player to win the green jacket. With him and his lineage he put an end to a tradition among the caddies that had begun in 1934, with the inaugural edition of the Masters. It was another product of the neighborhood of Sand Hills, the neighborhood near the field from which 90 percent of the assistants who carried the bags of the partners, all white -there was one until 1990 -attending a tournament where Elder did not play in 1975 he had the participation of leather.
It was one of those caddies that did not need a book of notes to guide or instrument to know with what force the wind blew. The Augusta National was known as the palm of his hand. In the irruption of severe genius, some dose of guilt resided in Herrington.