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Bengals mourn Turk Schonert, 62

No matter what he was doing, he was making people smile. Like on a golf course in Florida when Collinsworth watched Schonert hit one of the ugliest drives ever, a damn near parallel tee shot that sailed over water running down a dogleg left and landing in a yard. After arguing whether the ball was out of bounds (“Of course you don’t see any stakes, no one has ever hit a ball there,” Collinsworth told him), they negotiated the stream so Schonert could hit. If possible, he hit an even worse shot into the drink.

Collinsworth thought he was going to toss the club after the ball, but Schonert held up at the last instant. He put the club back in the bag and pulled out a 2-iron that he whipped into the water. After Collinsworth composed himself long enough, he asked, “Why would you do that to an innocent two-iron?”

He goes, ‘I never hit that club,’” said Collinsworth, laughing and not crying.

https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-mourn-turk

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/sports/bengals-schonert-remembered-great-teammate-great-friend/J1BrO7e9zjDwgC8nZ1GF1J/