03/21/2024
Always trying to be efficient, Doug Landau enjoys supporting the initiatives that benefit from Bishop's events.
Travis Bishop has built up a company that puts on over 200 races a year in the Northern Virginia / Washington DC Metropolitan Area. His races cater to all levels of runners, joggers, and walkers. Venues range from wineries to the C&O canal. Many of the Bishop's events support charitable endeavors affiliated with veterans groups, the military, etc.
When there is racing at Washington DC‘s Haines Point, Doug Landau is especially excited to support these organizations because it ALSO enables him to drop off golf balls for the "First Tee" program, which teaches youth in the city how to play golf at the public course. This past weekend, Doug delivered another 30 dozen golf balls, which now brings his donation to over 1000 balls for these children to practice with, and knock into the Potomac River!
Landau accumulated most of these golf balls primarily during the COVID-19 pandemic while training on his bicycle and running by Loudoun and Fairfax County links. "I would see balls in the road and trails around golf courses" Landau noted, "I would return from training with a hip bag full of balls laying around trails public courses. It got to the point where I could spot a golf ball from 100 yards away! I sometimes would have so many on my long runs that I could not carry them all. I think that the high winds, lack of buffers/tall fences, and perhaps the skill level of local golfers, all contributed to the thousands of balls I have collected. Even on Reston Bike Club rides, I would sometimes stop and pick up a few balls on the street, if it was safe to do so. After giving all the new balls and sleeves I accumulated from my speeches to lawyers to the Oakton High School Golf Team, and over 1100 balls to First Tee, I still have a full trash can full of Titleist, Calloway, Dunlop, Nike, and other top brand golf balls."
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