Word that Eddie Merrins had died on Thanksgiving Eve hit me like a cold bucket of water as I gathered in the kitchen with family and monitored the making of the next day’s feast. Merrins, who died at ...

Eddie Merrins, the beloved teaching pro at Bel-Air Country Club and longtime UCLA golf coach, famously distilled the complicated motion of striking a golf ball into one thought: Swing the handle.

It’s one of the archetypal American dreams: Small-town boy grows up and finds a way to make it big in Hollywood. Well, in a sense that was the real-life story of Eddie Merrins, one of the few ...

"The Little Pro" gave lessons to Ringo Starr, Hugh Grant, Celine Dion, Jack Nicholson, Mikhail Baryshnikov and an "almost manic" Fred Astaire. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Merrins died Wednesday after ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Eddie Merrins was known as “The Little Pro” because of his 5-foot-7 stature, certainly not his influence on golf. The longtime pro at Bel-Air Country Club touched everyone from U.S.

LOS ANGELES — Eddie Merrins was known as “The Little Pro” because of his 5-foot-7 stature, certainly not his influence on golf. The longtime pro at Bel-Air Country Club had an impact on people ranging ...