Rory Quotes

“Golf probably saved his life. On September 11, 2001, he was attempting to qualify for the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship instead of sitting in his office on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Sandler O’Neill lost sixty-six of its eighty-three New York City employees on that dark day. Dunne insisted that the company pay ten years of salary to the family of each victim and cover the college tuition of the seventy-six children who had been left behind. Decades later, he was still known to weep when discussing 9/11 with friends.”
― Alan Shipnuck, Rory: The Heartache and Triumph of Golf's Most Human Superstar