Ross Freeman Coon Jr.

COON, Ross Freeman, Jr. Of Lynnfield, MA, passed away October 6, 2008. Survived by mother Marjorie Coon-Cole, son Nicholas Coon of Highland Beach, FL, daughter Angela Coon of Oakland, CA, brother Danny Coon of Mashpee, MA and Susan Canavan of Vienna, VA. He was grandfather of Clive Coon and Oliver and Finnegan McDaniel. Coon's success on the golf course began as a caddie and junior golfer playing out of Lynnfield Center and Sagamore Springs Country Club in his hometown of Lynnfield, MA. He turned professional at age eighteen and worked at Walpole Country Club, Clausons Inn and Country Club (now Cape Cod Country Club), Canterbury Country Club in Ohio, Seminole Country Club in Florida and Newport Country Club in Rhode Island before setting in as head pro at Indian Ridge Country Club in Andover, MA for the next 21 years. He earned the Player of the Year Wogan Award trophy twice and three New England Section PGA championships in 1966, 1972, and 1973. He won the Rhode Island Open in 1968 and again in 1974. On the national level, Coon participated in numerous Professional Championships including five PGA championships and two U.S. Opens. He was inducted into the New England PGA Hall of Fame in 2006 for his illustrious playing career as a perennial champion. He will be most remembered by his family for his love of the beach, a good cheeseburger and his old 1965 t-bird convertible. Services will be held on Friday, October 10, 2008, at Burke-Magliozzi Funeral Home, 390 North Main Street, ANDOVER, MA, from 6-8 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory can be made to the Make-a-Wish Foundation, One Bulfinch Place, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA 02114.