Craig began working for the Associated Press in the Huntington WV bureau, January 1970. He was the first, and for a while, the only reporter at the site of Marshall University’s football team plane crash in 1970. His coverage quickly escalated his career. He was deputy bureau chief of the Boston AP bureau and held several positions in the NY AP headquarters. He was the executive editor of the NY Post, and the executive editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin. After the Bulletin, he and a Bulletin colleague started a successful publishing business, Health Ink. After the business was sold, he remained as a consultant and client liaison for several years.
He was a member and president of GAP—the Golf Association of Philadelphia, was on several USGA committees, such as Rules and Communications, and was on the USGA Executive Committee from 2002-2007. He was able to officiate major USGA tournaments such as many Masters, and US and British Opens, among others. He was instrumental in bringing the 2018 US Amateur Four-Ball Championship tournament to Jupiter Hills and in the publication of the Jupiter Hills 50th anniversary book, The Story of Jupiter Hills.
His passions were journalism and the newspaper industry, and golf, especially golf architecture, and first and foremost, The Rules of Golf, which he constantly read.
He is survived by his wife, Esther Willard Ammerman; his daughters, Lauren Ammerman Stafford and Sarah Ammerman; grandchildren, Jackie, Nathan and Liam; a sister, Karen Ammerman and a brother, Keith Ammerman.
There are no formal arrangements. Honorary contributions to The First Tee, local or national, will be appreciated..
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