This past weekend (July 1-July 4), the 2010 AT&T National was held at the Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, PA. This tournament was the most meaningful professional golf event that has taken place in the Philadelphia area since the Senior PGA Championship in 2003.
Headlines are announcing the winner of the tournament, Justin Rose, but there was another hero playing in the tournament, a chief master sergeant in the Pennsylvania National Guard.
Sergeant George Vasiloff was selected by the Tiger Woods Foundation and AT&T National to play in the AT&T National pro-am this past Wednesday. Sergeant Vasiloff is the chief of logistics in the 201st Unit called RED HORSE, which stands for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operation Repair Squadron Engineer. His unit is based at Fort Indiantown Gap outside Harrisburg, PA.
The pro that would accompany the sergeant was none other than Tiger Woods. How does something like that happen, you might ask? Well, an invitation had gone out to Sergeant Vasiloff’s unit to attend the tournament to perhaps serve as military caddies to the players. But before the sergeant knew it, he was invited to play! He has confessed that he isn’t the best player in his unit but, at 45-year and a lifelong player, it just might have meant the most to him!
“This just proves that golf is game with a lot of heart,” said Grant Griffiths, our JKCP Golf Director. That’s true both on and off the links!
To read the full original story, visit: attnational.org
