Did Buddy ever participate in the Mosconi Cup? Seems like he would have been a good choice for the US team. I don't recall hearing anything about him being part of one and that seems odd to me.
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Buddy Hall & The Mosconi Cup
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Per this... he was a non-playing team member one year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosconi_Cup
That is all I know... sorry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosconi_Cup
That is all I know... sorry.
Has he won a tournament since the event first started?
Wait... are you serious?
He snapped off a US Open in 1998. Mosconi Cup was already gong for a a few years by then.
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Serious. I remember watching him do well in a lot of Senior events in early 2000s but didn't recall that last Open in '98.
Buddy Hall never did play in the Mosconi Cup. As mentioned above he was vice-captain to Johnny Archer in 2013.
Buddy didn't like to fly (and wouldn't!) so that made it a little hard for him to get to Europe in the 90's when he was still in his prime.
" I heard locally here in Tulsa,
" Buddy would not get in an airplane-
toured the U S in a car and sometime a Motor Home -
Oklahoma was about as far West as Buddy ever traveled. He knows the highways and byways of the Eastern USA (Mississippi East) as good as anyone alive.
It's a shame that someone with that much talent refused to get on an airplane. Obviously nobody ever convinced him that travel by car is so much more dangerous than by air.
He made it to the Sands in Reno at least twice in the '90s.
Tell that to the other "Buddy"...Buddy Holly.
Or Stevie Ray Vaughan, or Ricky Nelson, or Jim Croce, or Otis Redding, or plenty more who thought the same thing.
You can fly a million times, but it only takes ONE time to take you out.
Do you feel LUCKY?
271 people killed in flights last year, in the entire world
37,000+ people killed in car accidents last year in the U.S.......
Odds of dying in a plane: 1:11,000,000
Odds of dying in a car: 1:5000
How lucky do you feel now?
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Not one of the famous musicians you listed was flying on a commercial airline. They all owned or chartered small planes or helicopters using questionable judgement. U.S. professional sports teams — MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL — have been flying on commercial airlines for decades. Have you ever heard of a team being wiped out by a plane crash?
Ask him about his car accident back in the eighties.