My grandson Alexander Verschaeren was working as an assistant Pro at Redwood Meadows Golf and Country Club the summer of 2009. He and I were golfing together as we often did that summer. We were just the two of us that day.

0n Hole #11 there are two bunkers on this dogleg, one on the left and one on the right some 250 or more yards from the tee. The maintenance crew was finishing raking the left bunker and were waiting to rake the right bunker when we teed off. Alexander was hitting from the tips (Black) and sent a towering drive high over the bunker on the right side of the dogleg. I hit a good drive but certainly didn’t make it to a banker but was good and in the fairway. When I hit my second shot and we went down, way down the fairway to Alexander’s ball the two fellows on the maintenance cart came to talk to us.

They said they had worked at Redwood Meadows for TEN years and had NEVER seen anyone hit a ball this far from the black tees. Alexander and i thanked them and with a sand wedge Alexander hit his ball onto the green. Easy Par.

We had a really wonderful day. The sun was shining, the wind was calm and it was such a treat to watch him play. Alexander shot even Par. Not too shabby when he had to wait for me to play 2 shots to his one. To this day Alexander talks about how beautiful and challenging it is to play at the REDWOOD MEADOWS Golf and Country Club,

I wanted to share this memorable day with you all.

Above is a video of Alexander giving me a lesson this summer.