HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO Keep Payne Stewarts plane crash memory alive ?”
Tracey Stewart will mark the 10-year anniversary of the win on June 20 with some bittersweet memories when Open play gets underway at Long Island’s Bethpage Black course Thursday. Payne Stewart died in a plane crash four months after his 1999 Open win, when the private Learjet he was on lost cabin pressure shortly after takeoff. All six people aboard – two crew members, Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, and four passengers, Stewart, agents Robert Fraley and Van Ardan and golf course designer Bruce Borland – were killed. In addition, the Payne Stewart Golf Club just opened in Branson, Mo., which is the first of its kind that bears the two-time U.S. Open winner’s name. Payne was a Missouri native.
