CA man plays golf in all 50 states in 50 days

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) — Clay Phillips loves to play golf, truthful helium decided to harvester his passionateness with a charitable cause.

His program was to play 50 days of golf, connected 50 antithetic courses, successful 50 antithetic states. His escapade began successful August arsenic helium teed it up successful Hawaii.

Next halt was a circular of play successful Alaska, earlier heading southbound to the Pacific Northwest. From determination it was disconnected crossed the United States successful each directions. His ngo was implicit aft returning location to confederate California and playing a circular astatine Singing Hills Golf Resort.

"When I look back, it's truly conscionable a blur. A blur of motel hallways, and shots with my pitching wedge, again, and again, and again," Phillips said.

Phillips said the travel was fulfilling but it wasn't each amusive and games.

"The casual portion was that each my readying beauteous overmuch worked. The hard portion was archetypal and foremost being distant from home," helium said.

During his play adventure, Phillips said helium covered much than 10,000 miles.

Over the people of his trip, Phillips raised wealth and consciousness for providing entree to cleanable drinking h2o worldwide. He says if each the donations and pledges helium received travel through, helium volition person raised a small implicit $47,000 for his 2 charities, Project Blue and Water 1st International.

"There are millions and millions and millions of radical who are affected by thing we instrumentality for granted. Just casual entree to cleanable water. People discarded a batch of time, economies are not what they could be, it's similar the debased hanging effect of terrific causes," Phillips said.

After 50 consecutive days of play successful 50 states, Phillips doesn't cognize erstwhile helium volition deed different putt.

"My woman says it volition beryllium astir 3 days," helium said. "I accidental astir 3 years. So determination successful betwixt those two."

This communicative was primitively reported by Steve Smith connected 10news.com.