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st Special thanks to the Rev Dr Stewart Gillan and to Robert Bennie & Sons Funeral Directors for their care and help throughout. The retiral collection of £4042.76 will be shared between Edinburgh Sick Kids Friends Foundation and Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland.

Calvin Peete, golfer. Born: 18 July, 1943, in Detroit, Michigan. Died: 29 April, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia, aged 71.

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–ALVIN Peete, whose life traced one of sport’s most triumphant arcs a school dropout with a crooked left arm who did not pick up a golf club until his 20s, did not join the pro tour until his 30s, and still became one of the leading players of his era and the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods – has died. He was 71.

A self-taught player who never hit especially long, Peete was one of golf’s most accurate drivers and fairway players. He won his first PGA tour event, the Greater Milwaukee Open, in 1979, and from 1982 to 1986 was among the tour’s most prolific champions, winning 11 tournaments, including four in 1982.

In 1984, he averaged 70.56 shots per round, winning the Vardon Trophy, given annually to the professional golfer with the lowest perround score. In 1985, his two wins included the prestigious Tournament Players Championship (now simply the Players Championship) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a victory that Sports Illustrated described as “against the best field that will tee off all the year on one of the most unrelenting, terrorising courses the pros play”.

From 1976 to 1995, Peete played in 344 tournaments, winning 12, finishing in the top 10 73 times and earning $2.3 million.

His story is Dickensian in its down-and-out beginnings and American in its particular obstacles and eventual rewards. He was born in Detroit in 1943. According to numerous sources, his parents had nine children, and after they divorced his father, Dennis, had ten more.

Calvin lived with his father, a vegetable picker in Pahokee, Florida, in the south-central part of the state, and after he dropped out of school to help feed the family, he, too, worked in the corn and bean fields.

He was unable to do heavy work, however; at