Calkins: On a Sunday morning at Galloway, a saga of life and death
Bill Turner, left, suffered the heart attack. Andy Smith raced the defibrillator to him. They’re sitting on their bench at Galloway Golf Course in Memphis, two weeks later. (Geoff Calkins/Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Bill Turner dropped at the seventh green, felled by a heart attack. His friends say “he was gone.” What happened next is the best Memphis golf story of the year.
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