Word that Eddie Merrins had died on Thanksgiving Eve hit me like a cold bucket of water as I gathered in the kitchen with family and monitored the making of the next day’s feast. Merrins, who died at ...

Eddie Merrins, the beloved teaching pro at Bel-Air Country Club and longtime UCLA golf coach, famously distilled the complicated motion of striking a golf ball into one thought: Swing the handle.

It’s one of the archetypal American dreams: Small-town boy grows up and finds a way to make it big in Hollywood. Well, in a sense that was the real-life story of Eddie Merrins, one of the few ...

No teacher is more at home among stars than Eddie Merrins. In the sartorial splendor of a bygone era, with his trademark tie and Tam O’Shanter cap, he will move comfortably among the biggest names on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Merrins was known ...

"The Little Pro" gave lessons to Ringo Starr, Hugh Grant, Celine Dion, Jack Nicholson, Mikhail Baryshnikov and an "almost manic" Fred Astaire. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Merrins died Wednesday after ...

Eddie Merrins, the beloved teaching pro at Bel-Air Country Club and longtime UCLA golf coach, famously distilled the complicated motion of striking a golf ball into one thought: Swing the handle.

Eddie Merrins, the gentlemanly golf pro at the Bel-Air Country Club who taught the game to the likes of Bing Crosby, Ringo Starr, George C. Scott, Dean Martin, Celine Dion and Jack Nicholson, has died ...