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The award, given on the eve of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, is presented annually to a person who has fostered the ideals of the game on an international level and whose concern for others extends beyond the golf course.
Love, 52, a 21-time tour winner, captains the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team. He also works as a golf course architect and authored the book Every Shot I Take, a tribute to his father's lessons on life and golf that won the 1997 USGA International Book Award. Love Jr., 53, died in a plane crash in 1988 en route to a meeting of Golf Digest Schools' instruction staff.
Love said he still sees himself "as a kid playing golf." But he knows the value this honor would hold for his father.
"I never really saw myself as an ambassador or a Payne Stewart Award winner or a Bobby Jones Award winner. But I've said over the last few years my dad would have been as proud or more proud of those awards or being named Ryder Cup captain than me winning golf tournaments because that's what he stood for," Love said.
The award, given on the eve of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, is presented annually to a person who has fostered the ideals of the game on an international level and whose concern for others extends beyond the golf course.
Love, 52, a 21-time tour winner, captains the 2016 U.S. Ryder Cup team. He also works as a golf course architect and authored the book Every Shot I Take, a tribute to his father's lessons on life and golf that won the 1997 USGA International Book Award. Love Jr., 53, died in a plane crash in 1988 en route to a meeting of Golf Digest Schools' instruction staff.
Love said he still sees himself "as a kid playing golf." But he knows the value this honor would hold for his father.
"I never really saw myself as an ambassador or a Payne Stewart Award winner or a Bobby Jones Award winner. But I've said over the last few years my dad would have been as proud or more proud of those awards or being named Ryder Cup captain than me winning golf tournaments because that's what he stood for," Love said.
