Bing Crosby

He shot an 85. He suffered a massive heart attack after the last hole and on his way to the club house. Some of his final words were ", 'That was a great game of golf, fellas'".

From the AP:

MADRID (AP 10/15/77) -- Bing Crosby, 73, whose crooning voice and relaxed humor entertained millions worldwide for half a century, died of a heart attack yesterday after playing a round of golf here. Crosby collapsed after playing a game with three Spanish golf champions at the La Moraleja club and was taken to the Red Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Crosby carded an 85 and won the game by one stroke because of his golf handicap, according to Juan Tomas Gandarias, one of Crosby's partners and a professional golfer. Gandarias, who had lunch with Crosby before the game and walked with him around the course, said the singer seemed relaxed and was joking as he left the 18th hole. "Suddenly he dropped," he said. "Before that he had given no sign of illness although he seemed to be favoring his left arm near the end of the game." Crosby was about 20 yards from the clubhouse when he fell. He was rushed first to the clubhouse infirmary, where a doctor gave him an injection and a pill and concluded that he had suffered "a massive heart attack." U.S. consular officials said Crosby's body would be taken today to the U.S. Air Force base at Torrejon, outside Madrid. An American mortician is being flown in to prepare the remains for return to the United States, they said, and an autopsy is to be performed. The singer, actor and businessman had gone to Spain primarily to relax after a tour of Britain which included a sell-out performance at the London Palladium. He considered the tour a test of his recovery from a back injury he suffered in a fall in March. "I'm still a little limpy, but I want to find out if I can still function after the accident," he said. His last public appearance in the United States was August 13, before about 5,000 people in Concord, Calif. Trudy Berger, the cook at the Crosbys' home in Hillsborough, Calif., said yesterday, "He had been feeling fine. We were expecting him back in a day or two."Mrs. Kathryn Crosby, who married the singer in 1957, arrived home about 2 p.m. and drove slowly up the short incline leading to the estate. Her eyes were red and her face wet with tears.Friends reacted with surprise and sorrow at the news of Crosby's death. "It's a terrible shock to me," comedian George Burns said. "He was one of the greatest. He made it possible for a lot of new singers by introducing a new style. The world is going to miss him." Frank Sinatra said, "The death of Bing Crosby is almost more than I can take. He was the father of my career, the idol of my youth and a dear friend of my maturity. Bing leaves a gaping hole in our music and in the lives of everybody who ever loved him. And that's just about everybody."