Drawn by a 39 years-to-life inmate at Attica, living in a 6-by-10 cell. He’d never seen a golf course in his life.
Move to April 2019.
Valentino Dixon walked free in September 2018 after serving 27 years.
He walked down to Amen Corner and saw the 12th hole he knew only from pictures. He met Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, whom he’d only seen in magazines.
It felt like home. The drawings had taken him here day after endless day, when there seemed no end in sight and no reason for hope.
“I just wanted to cry,” Dixon said. “I mean inside I was crying but I held back the tears, you know, because it’s just so much more remarkable and awesome in person. And I’ve drawn that 12th hole about eight or nine times and it’s nothing like seeing it in person — nothing. It’s just like the most wonderful thing that I can see in the world right now.”
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