Article April 7, 1997 Issue

Mastering golf—and life!

by Kim Shippey

The azaleas are in bloom at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, and the world's top golfers have converged on this southeastern corner of the United States for the first of the four "majors" of the 1997 season—the Masters tournament, which begins on Thursday.

John Toepel, who competed for several years on the professional circuit in the 1970s, has played golf since his childhood days in Wisconsin. At the age of twelve, he reached the final of the local men's club championship, and within sixteen years he was playing in the company of Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Gary Player, John Mahaffey, J. C. Snead, Gene Littler, and others on the professional tour.

Mr. Toepel now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is engaged full time in teaching people how to play better golf. And that, he told us in a Sentinel interview, is sometimes like teaching them about life!

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