A Golf Journey For A Good Cause

It's 50 courses in 50 states in 50 days as a 50-year-old.

That’s the ultimate dream vacation, right? But Pete Crozier isn’t doing this for a getaway. He is, in fact, playing 50 different golf courses, one in every state in the country, in just shy of a two-month span, in honor of his late father, George, who died after a stroke with complications from Type 2 diabetes 20 years ago. Crozier is also doing it for his 15-year-old son, Gavin, who has Type 1 diabetes. And now Pete, at age 50, is raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

George Crozier

According to the American Diabetes Association, as of 2015 the disease was the seventh-leading cause of death in the United States with 79,535 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death and 173,271 death certificates listing it as a contributing cause.

Pete’s dream of playing 50 courses in 50 states in 50 days – a journey he has dubbed “Fifty for Father” – started 20 years ...