{ When Terrorism Met Golf }
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Of The Wedge ( 6)
Why Pavin Must
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Maybe they simply were in the wrong
place at the wrong time. There is com-
pelling evidence, however, that suggests
what happened to the group of players and
officials staying at the Buenos Aires Shera-
ton the week of the World Amateur Team
Championships in 1972 was not an accident.
This much is certain: Bombs were trig-
gered on the hotel’s upper floors. It was the
work of conspirators. And more explosive
devices were set to go off. Fortunately, they
did not.
“Looking back on it now, and knowing
about the other bombs,” U.S. team member
Ben Crenshaw would later tell Global Golf
Post senior correspondent Steve Eubanks,
“ ... we’re lucky to be here.”
Golf, for the first time, had come face-to-
face with global terrorism.
Inside this edition, Eubanks has filed an
exclusive report that recounts, in chilling
detail, this mostly forgotten chapter in our
sport’s history. He also examines the secu-
rity measures expected to be in place when
participants return to Buenos Aires next
month (Oct. 28-31) for the same event.
Meanwhile in Switzerland the curiously
coiffed but unmistakably skilled Miguel
Angel Jimenez held off Ryder Cup team-
mate Edoardo Molinari to win the Omega
European Masters. It was The Mechanic’s
third Euro victory this year and a wonderful
tune-up for next month’s Ryder Cup.
Lastly, the Deutsche Bank Champion-
ship is set to conclude later today. And the
golf world breathlessly awaits U.S. Ryder
Cup captain Corey Pavin’s four wild card se-
lections Tuesday. For details on both those
events, go to www.globalgolfpost.com.
