Jack Newton, who lost a British Open playoff, dies at 72

[ASFN Admin]

Jack Newton, who lost to Tom Watson in a 1975 British Open playoff and tied for second behind Seve Ballesteros at the 1980 Masters before his professional golf career ended in a near-fatal aircraft propeller accident, has died. Newton, who had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died early Friday due to “health complications,” his family said in a statement. Newton won the U.S. PGA Tour's Buick Open in 1978 and the Australian Open in 1979 and three tournaments in Europe before his career —- and nearly his life — ended when he walked into the propeller of a small plane he was about to board at Sydney airport on July 24, 1983.

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