{"id":143515,"date":"2025-09-09T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143515\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T07:23:07","slug":"100-year-old-golfer-gets-birthday-surprise-on-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143515\/","title":{"rendered":"100-year-old golfer gets birthday surprise on the green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HATFIELD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; 100-year-old Pearl Atwood has been steadily swinging her golf club for the past half-century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It started with the encouragement of her husband. Upon his retirement, Atwood decided to learn how to play alongside him. Together, they enjoyed many outings on the green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For much of the past half-century, Atwood has played at Twin Woods Golf Course in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. There, she enjoys playing nine holes every Wednesday during the golfing season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Atwood turned 100 years old on September 1st, 2025. And just a couple days later, she enjoyed a birthday surprise on the green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see the full story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">To learn more about Twin Woods Golf Course, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twinwoodsgolfcourse.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/pa-teen-jump-rope-star-competes-world-championship-japan\/17626384\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Pa. teen jump rope star competes at world championship in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16-year-old Zach Peckman has already set a national jump rope record and leaped across the world to compete in Kawasaki, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HATFIELD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; 100-year-old Pearl Atwood has been steadily swinging her golf club for the past half-century.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[89237,89242,89240,8099,427,15226,15634,89241,89238,3234,99,1148,89239],"class_list":["post-143515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-100-year-old","tag-89242","tag-birthday","tag-celebration","tag-golf","tag-golf-course","tag-golfer","tag-hatfield","tag-pearl-atwood","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sports","tag-surprise","tag-twin-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}