WHAT DO A HALL-OF-FAME GOLFER and a literary icon have in common?
Karen Crouse tells us in her New York Times story, "Phil Mickelson Never Met Harper Lee, but the Admiration Was Mutual."
Lee's father, a lawyer, introduced her to golf. "Playing golf is the best way I know to be alone and still be doing something," said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird more than a half century ago. "You hit a ball, think and take a walk."
Mickelson, who read To Kill a Mockingbird as a student, hoped to meet the famous author after he learned the Lees rooted for him in the 2004 Masters, which he won.