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Last Monday morning, pro golfer Payne Stewart awoke with the world on a string. He was to fly from his home in Orlando, Fla., eager to scout a site in Dallas that might be used for his fledgling golf-course-design business. Then on to Houston for the Tour Championship, a prestigious, season-crowning showdown among an elite field of the year's Top 30 money winners. Buoyed by a religious faith to which his young children had led him, Stewart, 42, was happier than friends had ever seen him. And thanks largely to a June victory...
...which helped carry the team to a 14-8 victory. Aaron received the game ball. The night after Stewart's plane went down, Aaron was clutching it. "Mom, this is a very special ball because Dad saw me get it." Amid all the lingering questions of last week, the golfer's son had one of his own. He wanted to know if he could put the ball in a special place: his father's trophy case...
...mystery of Payne Stewart's last flight may sound like "X-Files" material, but investigators believe a simple case of depressurization may have killed the star golfer and his five fellow travelers. The miracle is that the only victims in Monday?s tragedy were the six people aboard the Learjet that was carrying Stewart to a Texas tournament. "Once its crew were incapacitated, that plane was like an artillery shell crossing at least a dozen busy air routes at 400 or 500 miles an hour from Florida to the Dakotas," says TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It was an extremely...
...addition, junior co-captain Matthew Dost finished first in the individual competition. Dost shot a 36, one over par, and won the playoff against Salem State's top golfer...
...Parring the playoff hole under pressure-packed conditions in bad weather shows what kind of mettle he has as a golfer," junior co-captain Kaj Vazales said of his teammate...