WWTBAM Bored

Sportswriter and sports novelist based in Texas. His novels included Semi-Tough, later made into a movie, and Dead Solid Perfect. He was a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, covering golf since the early 1950s.

Age 89.

http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/261 ... ns-dies-89

I loved his books for the last 40 years.