ou won’t find Ed White’s name
in many books.
Most works on
Texas golf history omit him.
Maybe in any other state he would be
more notable, but not one that gave golf
Hogan, Nelson, Demaret and countless
others.
But one author did feel the need...
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ou won’t find Ed White’s name
in many books.
Most works on
Texas golf history omit him.
Maybe in any other state he would be
more notable, but not one that gave golf
Hogan, Nelson, Demaret and countless
others.
But one author did feel the need
to note him: Harvey Penick.
In his Little
Red Book, Penick listed White as one of
his best students ever, right next to a couple of guys named Crenshaw and Kite.
Ed White was one of the most promising amateur talents in the country after
winning the 1935 intercollegiate golf
championship for the University of
Texas.
He had the talent to become the
next great golf star.
But after graduating during the Great
Depression, Ed White fell off the national radar screen, rarely ever
competing in even statewide tournament for the rest of his life.
What happened to him? White was content to live his life and
raise a family in the bustling boomtown that was Houston.
Along the
way he became one of the best amateur golfers
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