Remembering Gerry Faust

BY AARON HELMAN // POSTED NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Notre Dame football coach Gerry Faust drove the cart away from the Knollwood Golf Course clubhouse, both of our bags tumbled off the back. We both thought the other had secured them. A dozen or so onlookers laughed and so did we — sort of. It was just another awkward moment in our awkward head coach-sports editor relationship. We both stunk at golf, but Faust, who died Nov. 11 at the age of 89, thought we could bury the hatchet while spending much of our four hours together in the course's rough and sand traps.

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