Allene Mueller admits it’s been easier to keep playing golf two to three times a week, five hours a day, than it was for her to turn 90 years old — which she did Oct. 6.
“It was a struggle getting there,” the 25-year Sedona golfer said during one of her biweekly morning rounds at Oakcreek Country Club. “I don’t want to give up.”
Country club golf pro Heather Risk, Women’s Golf Association president Julie Larson and more than 50 of Mueller’s other family, friends and fellow golfers brought her cards, gift cards to local restaurants and “wonderful food” to her home for her 90th birthday celebration.
“They were individual little cupcakes with candles in each one,” she recalled. “That was very unexpected.
“It blew my mind. It was fantastic.”
In 1990, Mueller, a medical assistant, and her husband, Dick, a former solar turbine engineer, retired to the red rocks from San Diego.
“I asked Dick, ‘What would you like to do?’
“He said, ‘I’d like to play more golf.’
For the full story, please see the Friday, Nov. 6, issue of the Sedona Red Rock News.
