Virginia Golfer January / February 2015 | Page 36

Judge Clubs OF VSGA member and police lieutenant takes part in testing of new golf equipment E by LISA D. MICKEY ACH AUTUMN, when Richmond Police Department Lieutenant Jeff McKinney leaves for a week in Florida, his fellow officers give him a good razzing about his cushy, all-expensespaid golf trip, courtesy of Golf Magazine. But what his colleagues think he’s doing each year is completely different than what McKinney is travelling to Florida to do. “They think I’m going to a great resort to play golf every day, starting the morning with a Bloody Mary or something,” laughs McKinney, 54, a Richmond law enforcement officer for 29 years. “I assure them it’s not a typ X