{"id":21511,"date":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/never-too-late-to-fulfil-your-dream-even-at-99\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T10:20:19","slug":"never-too-late-to-fulfil-your-dream-even-at-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/never-too-late-to-fulfil-your-dream-even-at-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Too Late to Fulfil Your Dream&#8230; Even at 99!"},"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>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&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;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&#8217;ll be back. Madsen has surely had these days. But not on this one.&nbsp;He shot an 85, just 13-over-par, on the day he wrote the script of his now cherished story.&#8221;     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&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-21511","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\/21511","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=21511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21511\/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=21511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}