"The last time we spoke, he left me with three words: 'Cherish every minute.'"

Kevin Cook files a nice remembrance of David Malcolm, author of Tom Morris of St. Andrews: The Colossus of Golf, who passed away June 4th.

After Tom Morris of St. Andrews won the USGA's Herbert Warren Wind Award as the best golf book of 2008 (Sir Nick Faldo paid £15,000 for a special edition), Malcolm said he appreciated the award partly because he had caddied for Wind "a thousand years ago when he came to St. Andrews. I was a lad, and he was a bit of a windbag."

It was moments like that one -- a mix of achievement and wit -- that will make all of golf, and me especially, miss him. The last time we spoke, he left me with three words: " Cherish every minute."