I have ties to a lot of areas, including the golf community in Oklahoma. I was the golf writer at the Tulsa World for more than one decade. I got close to a lot of folks.
Two of my favorites were pros Buddy Phillips at Cedar Ridge Country Club and Jerry Cozby at Bartlesville’s Hillcrest Country Club.
Phillips died Friday at 85. Cozby passed on Sunday at 79.
I’m deeply saddened. I knew them intimately during my days as golf writer. I covered their sons (Tracy Phillips, Cary Cozby, Chance Cozby and Craig Cozby) in junior and college golf.