Meet Jack Fleck the "Write" Way …

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Published: August 3, 2011

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Golf Writer Andy Reistetter is fortunate to have met most of the world's top professional golfers while on tour the last four years. Last year at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach he spent the afternoon with 1955 U.S. Open champion Jack Fleck and his longtime buddy Ed Tallach.Fleck is the oldest living major champion and one heck of an interesting person. Take yourself back to the Ben Hogan era and meet Jack Fleck in the third article of Reistetter's exclusive "Meet Golfers the Write Way" series. 

So you think Tiger Woods beating Rocco Mediate in a Monday playoff at Torrey Pines in the 2008 U.S. Open was big?

Go back to a different time in golf and think about what it must have been like for little known Jack Fleck to defeat the hero of golf, Ben Hogan, in a similar Monday playoff at Olympic Club in 1955.

Now nearly 90 years old with 70 years experience as a golf professional, Jack is alive and kicking in Fort Smith, Arkansas. In addition to sharing his love for the game he continues to share his insights into playing golf through his books and website:

www.jackfleckgolf.com

Who inspired him to do this?

Self-help advocate, author and lecturer Wayne Dyer inspired him.

"Don't die with the music still in you," is what Jack whispered in my ear on that glorious day at Pebble Beach.

"I am at this age now and that is why I am..."

Jack was there for the 55th anniversary of his famous win over Hogan.

I hope to see him again when the U.S. Open returns to Northern California in 2012 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

It wasn't "one fleck and you're gone" with this man, the Jack of all Flecks.

Fleck won twice more on tour and then two times on the Senior Tour.

When Arnold Palmer shot that final round 65 to beat Nicklaus by one stroke at Cherry Hills in the 1960 U.S. Open, he beat Jack Fleck by two strokes.

In fact, he play...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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