Never Too Late to Fulfil Your Dream… Even at 99!

C.D. Madsen has been a member at Marin Country Club for 57 years. He golfs and works out at the California course once a week, and often visits head golf professional Ken Doherty’s office to admire (and envy) a hole-in-one photo hanging on the wall. At 99 years of age, he had never savoured that same delight.

Then last month he hit a six-iron from 108 yards on the par-three 16th at Marin and watched as it disappeared into the hole. As KTVU reported, “Perhaps the greatest joy of a game that simultaneously stimulates and infuriates is that one great stroke. A day filled with saddening swings and unforgiving bunkers can quickly be recharged with one smooth shot. The one that reassures you’ll be back. Madsen has surely had these days. But not on this one. He shot an 85, just 13-over-par, on the day he wrote the script of his now cherished story.”