Former Arizona State men’s golf coach Billy Mann said he’s “fortunate to still be above the divot’’ after surviving a near-fatal car crash 70 miles east of Palm Springs, Calif., last month.
Mann, who coached at ASU from 1961-77 and came back on an interim basis in 1986-87, said he’s doing much better after injuring his neck, both rotator cuffs and an artery to his brain in the roll-over accident on Interstate 10.
“It was a Sunday evening (April 6) and I was returning from working (the scoreboard) for the LPGA at the Kraft Nabisco Championship,’’ Mann said. “Apparently, I fell asleep behind the wheel.
“The next thing I know, I see mesquite bushes flying all around me, and then I got back on the highway and overcorrected and the car flipped over.’’ |