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Article: One for Bobby.(Brief Article)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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As a young boy growing up in Atlanta, Heidrick & Struggles chief executive Pat Pittard used to walk over to the Donald Ross-designed course at the East Lake Golf Club in hopes of catching a glimpse of its most famous member, Bobby Jones.
"I remember, like it was yesterday, standing at the fence by the fourth hole, which runs parallel to Second Avenue, and watching Bobby Jones stroll by," says Pittard, who is now 53 and still lives in his hometown. "And when the Ryder Cup was played there in 1963, two of my buddies and I sat in a tree in almost the exact same spot and watched the greats of that era go by. We weren't very well-hidden, and most of them would smile ...
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