A day after Rory McIlroy won the Masters and the career Grand Slam at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, Chattanooga’s Boyd Cobb, 90, delighted members at the Chattanooga Golf & Country Club with a gutty performance of his own.
As he had promised for months, Cobb, a retired electrical equipment salesman, played 90 holes at the Riverview golf course Monday, just days after his 90th birthday on April 5.
Actually, Cobb finished 91 holes Monday — he called the extra hole, “one to grow on.”
“We did it!” Cobb said in at interview at his Riverview home Monday evening. “The good Lord gave me a great day. I’m blessed to be able to do what I do at 90.”
Cobb, who keeps in shape doing Pilates and carrying his own bag on rounds at the club, started his marathon day at 7:05 a.m. and completed the five, 18-hole rounds about 5:30 p.m., averaging about two hours per round.