While thumbing through a sports humor book recently, “Let a Dead Horse Rest,” there was a recall of one of the clever characters ever to follow the PGA golf tour. Bob Drum, formerly with the Pittsburgh Press, later landed a gig with CBS Sports, always looking for a humorous angle.
For example, he found it interesting that golf course Pete Dye chose to use railroad ties to build golf courses. Dummer’s punch line about that was that Dye built courses that could burn down.
He was the first full-time golf writer to follow the career of Arnold Palmer whom he would insult just as he did everybody else.