There was never a bad word you heard from anyone about Dale Douglass.” He did so much for a lot of people, particularly in Colorado. More importantly, golf has lost a real gentleman and a man who really championed golf throughout the country. Personally, I’ve lost a close friend I’ve had for some 57 years. “Dale was so very proud of being from Fort Morgan and the University of Colorado,” Irwin said Wednesday evening from Akron, where he was set to compete in a pro-Am. “He finished eighth, seventh and fifth, respectively in the league championships those years and remains one of just five Buffaloes to finish in the top 10 three times in a conference championship.”ĭouglass was inducted into CU’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010, only the second golfer after Hale Irwin to be honored that way. “At CU, he was a three-time, first-team all-conference performer, in the Big Seven in 1956 and the Big Eight in 19,” reported in a story about Douglass’ death. I lost a good friend earlier this week when Dale Douglass, a former PGA Tour and then Champions Tour golfer passed away at age 86,” Fort Morgan resident and former Fort Morgan Times Publisher Bill Holland stated.ĭouglass, who discovered his love of golf in Fort Morgan, was the University of Colorado’s first golfer to play on the PGA Tour. “Throughout my 68 years, I have come to learn a person goes through life knowing strangers, acquaintances, friends, good friends, best friends and true friends.
“We started a tournament for him here, which we still have.” Dale Douglass Golf Committee Members, from left, Jay Hauersperger, Sam Graveel, Kevin Kirchmar, Bill Holland, Dale Douglass and Shawn Stutzman at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, where Dale treated the men to 18 holes of golf. “Dale was exceptional and never forgot his beginnings in Fort Morgan,” Graveel told The Fort Morgan Times on Thursday.
That is how Sam Graveel, who is a member of the Dale Douglass Golf Committee in Fort Morgan, described Douglass. Fort Morgan golfing legend Dale Douglass, who died at age 86 Wednesday in Scottsdale, Arizona after a long illness, is being remembered by his longtime friends and acquaintances in Morgan County as “a true ambassador to the game of golf.”
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