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Article: Jack Lemmon award honors top amateur at Pebble Beach.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 30, 2002
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SAN JOSE _ Rock singer Huey Lewis was watching the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on television some years ago when the camera zoomed in on a certain celebrity trying to flail his way out of a bunker..
"Man," Lewis thought as the guy took one, two, three swings, "I'm sure glad that's not me."
That was Jack Lemmon, the late actor whose foibles at Pebble Beach became almost as legendary as his two Oscar-winning performances. Lemmon's death of cancer in June at age 76 ended a perennial quest that began in the late 1950s, when the event was known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. Twenty-five times Lemmon tried to qualify for the final round of the ...