BY MARK HALPERN
The Golf world lost a great golfer and analyst this past week. Peter Oosterhuis passed away at 75 after a long battle of Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease on May 2nd, 2024.
Oosterhuis will go down as one of Europe’s most elite golfers. During the 70’s we reigned as the Europe’s #1 golfer for four years but his play during the Ryder Cup was really where his fame was known as he most of his matches. In total he won 20 matches including the 1973,74 French open and the 1974 Italian open. In 1975 he made a decision to join the PGA to play in the states and did so until 1986 when he decided to become a full-time analyst for CBS.
In 1994 he became an analyst in Europe after getting married for the second time and would continue to be one of Europe’s most treasured Golf reporters. The Golf Channel came to be in the 1990’s but wasn’t really huge but from 1995-1997 he was the Golf Channels #1 European analyst and was said to be like the great Verene Lundquist (America’s top Golf Analyst.) In 1998 he re-joined CBS and remained as one of the Golf World’s favorite analysts with his smooth delivery and British accent. In 2015 he began his fight with early onset Alzheimer’s and in 2018 he retired after a storied career. He will be sorely missed as he was an encyclopedia of golf knowledge and wouldn’t need a break to make a comment on a rule, he knew all.
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