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Article: SON OF JOE LOUIS RECALLS DEVELOPING SWING - FOR GOLF.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Byline: John Meyer Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Joe Barrow believes there is a lesson for the golf industry in the way he learned the game from his father. In fact, it was on the golf course that he really got to know his father.
The rest of America thought it knew Barrow's father, Joe Louis, the boxer and hero to millions. But Barrow lived with a stepfather from a young age and, in those days, usually saw his father in some restaurant where the champ was being pestered for autographs.
``We got particularly close when I was in high school and college,'' says Barrow, a longtime Denver resident. ``That's when I spent the most quiet times I ...
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