Here's to Bruce Vaughan, who beat John Cook in a playoff to win the Senior British Open. Better late than never. Vaughan never had won a tournament on the PGA Tour or the Champions Tour before, yet is a worthy champion.
He paid his dues in golf. He's also a good fellow, which I can say with some authority, having been at dinner with Vaughan, a handful of other Champions Tour pros and local business leaders during the Commerce Bank Championship.
The very best part of his win, though, was that it was a huge lift to his spirits. Only seven weeks earlier, Vaughan's mother died in a car accident, after having just returned home from watching her son play in a tournament in Iowa.
Here's hoping we see him on Long Island again next year. That is, here's hoping there's a tournament for him to enter.