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Death. At age 83, Roberts had been in ill health for several months with cancer, and had a debilitating stroke. On September 29, 1977, a year after stepping down, Roberts killed himself via a self-inflicted gunshot on the banks of Ike's Pond at Augusta.
His body was later found on the banks of Ike’s Pond on the course Roberts brought to life himself. By committing suicide, Roberts chose the same fate as his mother, who took her own life when he was just 19 years old. PGA Tour legends knew what Clifford Roberts meant to golf
His mother had committed suicide when he was 19, and he decided to do the same, but not before getting a haircut in the club’s barbershop on the morning of his death.
On September 29, 1977, a few months after being unable to leave his bed during Masters week, Roberts received a haircut and got dressed into new pyjamas before journeying down to somewhere along...
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He was born into poverty, became wealthy via the stock exchange, suffered the suicides of both his parents, and would ultimately end his own life on the golf course that bears his legacy.
Clifford Roberts, a co‐foUnder and for 43 years chairman of the Masters golf tournament, was found dead yesterday at the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, apparently a victim of a...
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