Arriving Union Station Hotel and driving out to Glen Echo CC.
Excited to be leaving the Union Station Hotel to go play hickory golf at Glen Echo CC only because I knew I had one more night of luxury waiting for me when I was done!
Early on Monday morning, on the way driving to St. Louis I got a call from the Golf Channel. They were interested in the “Journey to Olympic Golf” and wanted to send a crew to film me playing hickory golf in my knickers at the very place Olympic Golfers last played. This was exciting news. A Golf Channel feature would bring more awareness to JTOG and hopefully more donations to The First Tee. With permission and blessing from the Glen Echo Club, everything was a go for tomorrow!
The over 500 mile daylong drive up to St. Louis was quite beautiful. Heading out of Atlanta on Route 75, onto Route 24 in Tennessee from Chattanooga to Nashville, into Missouri and coasting into St. Louis on Route 64. The hills and mountains are lovely and the vistas breathtaking at times. I was buoyed by the spirit of golf and the Olympics I had interacted with in Atlanta. I looked at the first contact swinging the hickory club as the official start of the “Journey to Olympic Golf.” I anticipate, hopefully, playing the new Olympic Course, of course not during the Olympics, and sinking the final putt on the 18th green to complete this historic golf odyssey.
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My home for the next two nights will be the historic AAA Four-Diamond St. Louis Union Station – a DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel and the ground upon which I play during the day will be the Glen Echo CC, host club of Olympic Golf in 1904.
I thought it couldn’t get any better than this. I was having the time of my life. Though I might find that old adage “be careful what you wish for” might be a little true. Tomorrow the official kickoff of the “Journey to Olympic Golf” will be a memorable day in the life of one Andrew C. Reistetter Jr.
When I woke up though I wasn’t me anymore… I was a hickory golfer trying to compete in the 1904 Olympic Golf competition! And Torch, we didn’t even get to Kansas yet!
I am looking for 100 new friends in the next 100 days to make a $100 donation (or any amount that you are able to make) to The First Tee. Each day I will be reliving the original “Journey to Olympic Golf” and hope to find a new friend in golf. Is that you? Please join me in giving back to the game we all love.
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The Great Hall at the Union Station Hotel is… well… GREAT!
Excited to be leaving the Union Station Hotel to go play hickory golf at Glen Echo CC only because I knew I had one more night of luxury waiting for me when I was done!
