Tom Ramsey, R.I.P.

Phillip Heads of Australia's Daily Telegraph remembers sportswriter Tom Ramsey.

"A stubborn northern Irishman, he covered 141 majors in his 40 years as a golf writer," said Hartigan. "He was afraid of no one and regularly dished it out to the likes of Greg Norman, despite his iconic standing in this country."

At TV Week, Ramsey lived something of Hollywood life as he helped develop the Logies into the pre-eminent entertainment awards.

For five years, he had a permanent room in Melbourne's then hotel-to-the-stars, the Southern Cross. As a golf writer, that trend continued as he followed the careers of Bruce Devlin, David Graham and later his great sparring partner Greg Norman.

"I don't really think the newspapers knew how much I was spending. Because I was allowed to make my own bookings and I always turned left when I walked up the aeroplane. Never right," Ramsey told the November 2010 issue of Australian Golf Digest.