2 0 1 7 F L O R I D A S E N I O R G A M E S C O M M E M O R A T I V E P R O G R A M
R O A D R A C E ( 5 K )
2 8
2016 GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
Jim Askew, Stuart
Charles Bettler, The Villages
Cathy Downing, Glastonbury, Conn.
Maria Georgiev, Longboat Key
Leonel Gutierrez, Davenport
Arlene Hanson, The Villages
Richard Hartje, Jacksonville
James Hummel, Tarpon Springs
Danuta Kubelik, Crystal River
Derek Larner, Georgetown, Ky.
Karen Mathews, St Petersburg
Linda McBeth, Palm Harbor
Erma McMullen, Bradenton
Fred Wood, Fleming Island
DATE
Saturday, December 9 – 5K Road Race
SITE
John Chestnut Sr. Park
2200 East Lake Road S
Palm Harbor, FL 34685
SCHEDULE
7:30 a.m. ..............5K Road Race Check-in
8:30 a.m. ..............5K Road Race Competition begins
Palm Bay’s Charles
Madge wins Florida
Senior Games Gold
Medal playing
on his 522nd course
An 80 percent chance of rain, dark skies and
wind, and an hour rain delay bringing a
noontime heavy downpour did not keep Palm
Bay’s Charles Madge from playing his 522nd golf
course, the Countryside Country Club, at the 2016
Florida Senior Games.
Scheduled for the final tee time of day at 12:12 p.m.,
Madge (pictured with a self-designed and made
putter) did not tee off before the downpour forced
a 45 minute rain delay. Upon return to play, a bit
later than scheduled, Madge made his way through
18 holes, walked off the course as darkness fell and
turned in his 25th Anniversary Florida Senior Games
scorecard with a gold medal-winning performance of
an 89 in the 85-89 age group.
Madge, still using his meticulous attention to
detail skills learned as a 1947 graduate of Purdue
University, with a degree in chemical engineering,
calculated he shot his age or less for the 330th time.
His degree and skills led to a career as a chemical
engineer at Union Carbide from 1949-83.
“I’ve got spreadsheets from floor to ceiling at
my house to keep track of all of this information,”
he admitted when asked how these numbers are
verifiable. Another one of his “shooting lower than
his age,” accomplishments came at the 2007 Florida
Senior Games when he won a gold medal with a 78 in
the 80-84 age group.
Since 1998, Madge has played in 13 Florida Senior
Games and won four gold medals, a silver and two
bronze medals.