"It’s really going to be something when they play it at the induction, almost like he’s there.”

Larry Dorman looks back on the innovations and final days of Frank Chirkinian, who just over a week ago taped an induction speech for the World Golf Hall of Fame ceremony.

“Tuesday a week ago, he felt up to it,” Haas said in a telephone interview Friday night. “He wasn’t ambulatory, but we managed to get him to the club. He was brilliant. He’s an old trouper, and he really rose to the occasion. We weren’t sure he was going to be able to, but he was. He delivered the whole thing, for three or four minutes, and it was tremendous.”