Golf Archives - Jake Olson https://jakeolson.me/category/golf/ Jake Olson Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:09:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://jakeolson.me/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-32x32-1-32x32.png Golf Archives - Jake Olson https://jakeolson.me/category/golf/ 32 32 It’s incredible he’s playing the U.S. Adaptive Open. He’s ‘pissed’ he’s losing https://jakeolson.me/its-incredible-hes-playing-the-u-s-adaptive-open-hes-pissed-hes-losing/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:46:43 +0000 https://jakeolson.me/?p=783 PINEHURST, N.C. — Cindy Olson was relieved. After a rough opening day at the U.S. Adaptive Open, she slipped into her son Jake’s cart and looked down at the scorecard affixed to the steering wheel. Finally, she saw some good … Continue reading →

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]]> Swanson: Jake Olson, USC’s blind long snapper, remains driven to succeed https://jakeolson.me/swanson-jake-olson-uscs-blind-long-snapper-remains-driven-to-succeed/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:26:46 +0000 https://jakeolson.me/?p=771 Always up for a challenge, the Huntington Beach native wows the crowd with a 283-yard drive at Sunday’s World Long Drive MB Celebrity Shootout Jake Olson, center, a former USC long snapper, cancer survivor, and 2019 U.S. Blind Golf Association … Continue reading →

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]]> How adaptive golf champion Jake Olson finds beauty in the game https://jakeolson.me/how-adaptive-golf-champion-jake-olson-finds-beauty-in-the-game/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:17:49 +0000 https://jakeolson.me/?p=765 Jake Olson was eight months old when doctors told his parents he had bilateral retinoblastoma, and they would need to remove his left eye. For the next 12 years, Olson lived as normal a life as possible – playing golf … Continue reading →

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