Eddie Merrins, the beloved teaching pro at Bel-Air Country Club and longtime UCLA golf coach, famously distilled the complicated motion of striking a golf ball into one thought: Swing the handle.

Eddie Merrins, who was affectionately known as “The Li’l Pro” and one of the most accomplished and decorated PGA professionals, died on Nov.22. CBS Sports’s Jim Nantz, a longtime close personal friend ...

Word that Eddie Merrins had died on Thanksgiving Eve hit me like a cold bucket of water as I gathered in the kitchen with family and monitored the making of the next day’s feast. Merrins, who died at ...

Bel Air Eddie Merrins, the golf pro at Bel Air Country Club is somewhat of a golf legend and is routinely listed among the top 100 teachers in America. (Photo by Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Merrins was known ...

BATON ROUGE – Former 1950s LSU golf star Eddie Merrins, who was inducted into the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005, passed away Wednesday in California at the age of 91. Merrins was a three-time All ...

Eddie Merrins, the gentlemanly golf pro at the Bel-Air Country Club who taught the game to the likes of Bing Crosby, Ringo Starr, George C. Scott, Dean Martin, Celine Dion and Jack Nicholson, has died ...