At Thunderbird Ranch and Country Club in Palm Springs, Tommy made his debut ... "Thunder" Bolt was unnerved by the comeback and started to throw a few clubs in his own inimitable style.

“Like I’m the only one who ever threw a club,” Bolt said ... There was more to Terrible Tommy than that, and now there’s no reason to throw anything except a party.

“I still play, but I don’t have as much touch,” said Tommy Bolt ... But what about the club throwing? “All that was blown out of proportion,” Bolt said. He almost won the 1971 PGA ...

He was known as Terrible Tommy or Thunderbolt on the PGA Tour for his club-throwing ability, explosive temper and questionable language. Bolt helped put Sarasota on the golfing map. “The Golden ...

"If you are going to throw a club," the temperamental legend Tommy Bolt once said, "it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to ...

Known for his trigger temper, Oklahoma native Tommy Bolt was all smiles on the day he won the U.S. Open in 1958 at Tulsa's Southern Hills Country Club ... on me when I was throwing one." ...

Tommy Bolt holds his trophy at the Southern Hills ... "It hurt me then, but it helped me later on," said Bolt of his club-throwing reputation. "Everybody knows who I am. People respect that.

Golfer Tommy Bolt, known as well for ... by his formidable and colorful personality.” Bolt won the 1958 U.S. Open at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., by four shots over Gary Player.

The anecdotes of his club-throwing soon passed into legend and ... "If we could've screwed another head on his shoulders, Tommy Bolt could have been the greatest who ever played." ...

The nicknames abound _ Tempestuous Tommy, Thunder Bolt _ but you ... "It hurt me then, but it helped me later on," Bolt said of his club-throwing reputation. "Everybody knows who I am.