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After a staredown, Rosaforte brushed past Krautzun to continue doing his job. He grew up in Brewster, N.Y., the son of a mechanic who was in the garbage business, the first of his family to graduate from college.įormer Fort Lauderdale Strikers coach Eckhard Krautzun once tried to stop Rosaforte from entering the locker room after a game because he was unhappy with a story Rosaforte had written. Rosaforte is showing the same tenacity he did while playing as an undersized (6-foot-1, 230 pounds) linebacker at Bridgeport, then the University of Rhode Island, then during his 40-plus years as a journalist. “I know what I have, and I know things don’t look good,” Rosaforte said. He knows he is facing a formidable opponent in Alzheimer’s. Rosaforte was taught never to ignore facts. “I think Tim has done a fantastic job of that.” “You have to know when to toe the line between knowledge that you can divulge and you can’t,” Tiger Woods said. He missed in 1983 because he married Genevieve. This week’s Masters will be strange enough without Rosaforte’s absence. In a day and age where distrust of the media abounds, Tim was always respected and admired by all. “The sport is predicated on several basic tenets - integrity, trust, selflessness. “Tim is respected by everyone in golf,” Nantz said. Tests confirmed the disease and doctors decided it was best not to start Rosaforte on new medications.

“When somebody comes through the door in the morning, you need to know their names.” CBS' Jim Nantz reached out to Rosaforte to seek treatment for Alzheimer'sĬBS announcer Jim Nantz reached out to Rosaforte to invite him to the Nantz Alzheimer’s Institute in Houston last month to seek alternative treatment (Nantz’s father died of Alzheimer’s). “I always admired the golf pros,” he said. Rosaforte took great pride in knowing and remembering the names of the sportswriters - many of whom he mentored - as well as the crew at the Golf Channel and many other folks in the golf business. 'I’ll miss the competing, I won’t lie about that,” he said. 19, leaving a huge void for his viewers - and Rosaforte. After a four-month break, Rosaforte went back on air late last year, but Golf Channel officials reluctantly made the decision to announce his retirement on Dec. He was taken off the air last summer and spent the next several months seeing doctors, who initially diagnosed the problem as anxiety. “I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to touch a president.” “I patted him on the shoulder when he walked over,” Rosaforte said. Rosaforte’s only error came when he met Obama on the range. In 2013, he actually scooped the White House press corps when he broke the story that President Barack Obama was playing golf with Tiger Woods at the Floridian in Palm City.

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There weren’t many things going on in professional golf that Rosaforte didn’t know about. Rosaforte's big scoop was President Barack Obama playing with Tiger Woods in Palm CityĪccess was the key to his success. Rosaforte kept himself relative with today’s stars through his hard work, perspective and knowledge of the game. Getting a phone number from the world’s top golfers in the 1980s and 90s wasn’t easy - you had to build years of credibility - and it’s more difficult these days. There is not an ounce of conceit in him.” “And he was the last person to let you know about it.

The question should have been, ‘Who don’t you have?’ The answer was ‘Nobody.’

“You could start with the presidents and work your way down to the greatest players of all time. presidents do you have in there?’ ” said Golf Channel host Rich Lerner.