96 year-old Still Gets A-Round
“I’m pretty much a natural athlete,” says Eleanor Rubenstein, the neighbourhood queen of golf and tennis in Beaverton, Oregon. At an age where her contemporaries are confined to a more dormant lifestyle, Rubenstein continues to light up the fairways at the ripe old age of 96.
A fine tennis player in her heyday, Rubenstein was forced to abandon the game four years ago after realising her legs couldn’t take the heat. Now Rubenstein replaces her weekly game of tennis with rounds of golf her local Claremont course. “I grew up on golf, it was my game as a girl. I play as much as I can,” Rubinstein said, “which isn’t nearly enough, if I get a game in a week, I’m very lucky.”
Rubenstein has converted some of her old tennis friends to the wonderful world of golf but it is more of a family affair when it comes to her playing time, “usually I play with my own children, they love golf.” Rubenstein’s daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all love sport as much as Rubenstein does, but it was Rubenstein who was the original athlete of the family.
“My father loved to watch sports but he didn’t play them,” Rubinstein said. “And my mother was totally a lady. My parents didn’t discourage me from playing, because it didn’t do a lot of good.”
9/11/2008 11:39:29 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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