Meet Richard and Pat Rutledge, co-owners with Tom and Eleanor Rutledge, of Twin Rivers Golf Course, Fall City, Washington. Their story is one that warms the heart and inspires the spirit.

Some would have called it a mid-life crisis when Richard and Pat announced plans to sell everything they owned to build a golf course in an unknown corner of the Pacific Northwest. But they had decided to follow Richard’s dream, one first visualized and put to paper when Richard sat through high school study hall forty years earlier. While other kids diligently did their homework, Richard doodled, designing his concept of the ideal golf course, complete with streams, lakes, sand traps, all kinds of trees, and a friendly clubhouse where golfers could relax after a round. A teenager who knew how to dream big, Richard planned to build his golf cours.