William D. “Bill” Ploeger, who for decades was among the nation’s top amateur and senior amateur golfers, truly died Wednesday doing what he loved.
Ploeger, 85, collapsed while playing golf at Green Island County Club in Columbus and was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional’s midtown emergency room, where he was pronounced dead at 1:27 p.m., Muscogee County coroner Buddy Bryan told the Ledger-Enquirer.
The cause of death is cardial failure due to complications of coronary artery disease, Bryan said…