The Michigan golf community lost a legend when Dave Kendall died recently at age 70 after a short battle with cancer.

Kendall was a Michigan Hall of Fame PGA teaching pro who founded the Kendall Academy at Miles of Golf in Ypsilanti, where he instructed thousands of players over decades. He was an accomplished competitive player himself and simply one of the nicest people in the golf business.

It isn’t hard to find any of the countless testimonials that came flooding in after he died Sept. 15. Since then, I’ve been thinking about how to honor Kendall, whom I’d gotten to know better over the last two years while playing Washtenaw Golf Club often.

Kendall was part owner of the par-72 public course in Ypsilanti and was instrumental in hiring his friend and architect Raymond Hearn in 2

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