Wilson Set for Limelight After 2018 Senior Amateur Triumph
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-06-24
By DAVID SHEFTER, USGA
Last August, employees at Toyota of Vallejo were distracted from their daily routines by an event 500 miles away.
But it wasn’t a major announcement from the Japanese automobile giant that garnered their attention.
What had employees huddled around an upstairs computer screen, technicians checking their smart phones and executives distracted from day-to-day business was – of all things – a golf competition.
Only a handful of the dealership’s 114 employees play golf. Most know little about the game. Yet on that morning, there was a palpable buzz filtering through the building because Jeff Wilson, the president of the dealership that has been in his family for nearly four decades, was competing in the final match of the 64th U.S. Senior Amateur Championship.
“The energy was off the charts,” said longtime general manager Dave Johnston, “because everyone knew what was happening. I had to make sure everyone was still doing their work.”