TOUR Winner Bunky Henry Passes Away At Age 74
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By LAURY LIVSEY, PGA TOUR Staff
George Walter Henry, Jr., began his athletic career as a football player, first in his hometown of Valdosta, Georgia, and then at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, where he earned three Yellow Jackets letters, starting in 1964. On the football field, everybody knew Henry as “Bunky,” a childhood nickname bestowed on him by his grandmother.
He was also “Bunky” on the golf course, and it turned out that’s where he would make a name for himself first as a college golfer and noted amateur and then as a professional, capturing one PGA TOUR title along the way.
The two-sport athlete died August 17 from complications during heart surgery. He was 74.