Furman Bisher (b.
November 4,
1918
in
Denton, North Carolina) is a sports columnist for the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution , where he once served as
sports editor, and is a columnist for
The Sporting News. Bisher has written for
Sports Illustrated,
The Saturday Evening Post and many other national
publications.
A
1938 graduate of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bisher became
editor of the
Lumberton Voice at the age of 20. He went on to work at
the
High Point Enterpirse and the
Charlotte News, where he became the sports editor in
1948.
Bisher was president of the
National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association from
1974
to
1976, and was president of the
Football Writers Association of America in
1959-60.
In
1961,
Time magazine named him one of the nation's five best
columnists.
Bisher, who is nearly 90 as the 2006 PGA golf season
progresses, is the "dean" of the many hundreds of golf and
general sports journalists who descend upon Augusta, GA each
April for
The Masters tournament, and was profiled as such between
rounds two and three of the 2006 Masters by
The Golf Channe
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