Bob Pompiani

No, he's 85, I think.

But, yeah, just tremendous guy.

Yeah.

He watches Stoke and Swing and Gary Player maybe in his 90s.

And he hit a good one down the middle and then kicked his famous kick in the air.

I always loved Arnie, yeah.

What was he like, Bob?

Oh, it's just what you see is what you get.

Just a tremendous classy person.

Did so much for the game.

Always took time with people.

Signed autographs legibly.

You'd go out and interview him at his country club?

We went out to La Trobe a couple times.

My best recollection of doing something with him is when he turned 80, we went down to Orlando.

uh at bay hill which is of course down there and so we did an interview and um he was just we were talking all of a sudden he just you know had a moment where he expelled some gas really yeah and he said do you think bob that microphone picked that up i said i hope it did i said the king you know you can do whatever you want it was funny we

But just an authentic person, always concerned about the game, always wanted to make the game better.

I had great ideas about the game, and man, what a great person.

Are you old enough to have remembered his legendary battles with Nicklaus?

No.