Sad News: Dick Harmon (610 Golf Hour) has passed away

Just announced it on 610.

Sad.

 

So is this end of the Golf Hour?

Didn't like the show, but seemed like a good guy. RIP

 

You're not a Burke are ya?

 

Trey and his wife came to my wedding. Trey used to work with my step dad. Small world...

 

I met him once at the airport getting his shoes shined, he was a very cool guy.

RIP

 

I don't want this to come off wrong, maybe it isn't good timing but he didn't look healthy. just going by his picture on 610's web site.

 

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Very bummed. Dick was a friend.

 

That sucks. I met him at the 610 Christmas party at Klein's. Actually had a few minutes of conversation with him. Seemed like a really good guy.

My condolances to all that knew him and his family.

 

alot of people didn't like the golf hr on thurs, but I used to listen to his golf hr on Fridays when it was the last show of the week. he was pretty funny.

 

Thoughts and prayers to his friends and family.

 

RIP.

 

Sad day :-(

 

Those guys at 610 are now dickless.

jk, Q.E.P.D.

Q: Was he the Golf Doctor guy that used to be on 740?

 

I don't follow golf or play it, but I used to listen to the guy on radio for the heck of it when I was in Houston. He seemed like a really cool guy. RIP.

 

I really disliked the golf hour, but I met Dick Harmon at one of Lance and John's anniversary shows and he was a class guy. We joked and talked for a good while and I could see why John and Lance loved having him around. God bless and my condolences to his family.

 

I really liked him on the golf hour. This is a real shock.

RIP Dick Harmon

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Though I dreaded the golf hour and usually turned it off, Dick seemed like a standup guy. I actually took one of his sayings he used to say alot..."I wouldn't know that person if they stepped on my toe!"

RIP Dick!!!!!

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/golf/wires/02/10/2070.ap.glf.obit.harmon.0346/

PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Dick Harmon, part of golf's most renowned teaching family and the son of former Masters champion Claude Harmon, died Friday. He was 58.

Harmon died at Eisenhower Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Lee Fowler said. She said she could not disclose the cause of death.

Harmon had been teaching at the Dick Harmon School of Golf at Redstone Country Club near Houston. Among his clients were Masters champions Fred Couples and Craig Stadler and former PGA champion Lanny Wadkins.

He had gone to visit one of his brothers, Bill Harmon, the teaching pro at Toscana Country Club.

"It's hard to believe,'' Butch Harmon, the oldest brother, told Golfweek.com. "It just came out of the blue. He was fine last night and gone this morning.''

The influence of the Harmon family is spread throughout golf. Butch Harmon, the oldest and most famous of the four, worked with Tiger Woods and Greg Norman when they rose to No. 1 in the world. Another brother, Craig, has been the pro at storied Oak Hill since 1972.

The four brothers reunited in Palm Desert late last month, working a three-day golf school together before flying on a private jet to Orlando, Fla., where their father was inducted into a teaching Hall of Fame. Claude Harmon won the Masters in 1948.

Dick Harmon had a golf show on a Houston radio station that he did by phone Thursday from Palm Desert.

He was the teaching pro at River Oaks Country Club for 24 years, retiring five years ago. Among his numerous awards were Southern Texas PGA Teacher of the Year, and he was recognized as one of the top 50 golf teachers by Golf Digest and Golf magazine.

"I didn't think there was a better short-game teacher than Dick,'' Wadkins told Golfweek.

The hospital referred all questions to Bill Harmon, who did not immediately return a phone message.

Along with his three brothers, Harmon is survived by his wife, Nancy, and four children.