The 2014 GSGA Amateur Championship was played under sunny skies at Idle Hour Golf Course and Country Club in Macon, Georgia. A gorgeous site for a tournament in its 98th year, this wasn’t Idle Hour’s ‘first rodeo’…the course has hosted this event eight times; more than any other site since the tourney’s inception in 1916.
Many golfers that played in this championship in its early years have passed on. But one legend in Georgia amateur golf, who’s been around for nearly all of those 98 years, found himself back on his native course, taking in its beauty alongside the generations now carrying on his beloved game.
A wise but personable ’92-years-young’, Arnold Blum cracked a smile as he described the course he knows like the back of his hand. A five-time champion of the GSGA Amateur, Blum has never had to travel very far for a round at this one. Besides his stint in World War II, he’s always lived within a handful of miles from Idle Hour.