{"id":21304,"date":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/nothing-is-impossible-in-golf-today-at-99-years-old\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","slug":"nothing-is-impossible-in-golf-today-at-99-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/nothing-is-impossible-in-golf-today-at-99-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing is impossible in golf: today at 99 years old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-6971\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images_Actualidad2016_Ace-Con-99-Anos-Ps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"874\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images_Actualidad2016_Ace-Con-99-Anos-Ps.png 874w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images_Actualidad2016_Ace-Con-99-Anos-Ps-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images_Actualidad2016_Ace-Con-99-Anos-Ps-768x508.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are few sports like golf&nbsp;that give you so much satisfaction at a very advanced age. If not, just ask C.D. Madsen, an American who at the age of 99 has managed to score a hole in one. The elderly gentleman did it on the course of the Marin Country Club (Novato, California), where he has been a member for 57 years. Despite his advanced age, good old Madsen had not managed to score a hole-in-one until now.   <\/p>\n<p>The big honor finally came when he hit his 6-iron on the 16th hole, a 99-yard par 3&nbsp;. As KTVU reported,&nbsp;&#8220;that shot is the greatest joy of a game that both exhilarates and infuriates. A day filled&nbsp;with saddening swings and&nbsp;unforgiving bunkers can be quickly fixed with a good shot, that shot that ensures you&#8217;ll play again.&#8221; Madson&#8217;s unforgettable day ended with a round of 83 strokes, 13 over par.   <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few sports like golf&nbsp;that give you so much satisfaction at a very advanced age. If not, just ask C.D. Madsen, an American who at the age of 99 has managed to score a hole in one. The elderly gentleman did it on the course of the Marin Country Club (Novato, California), where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}