PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – A harrowing journey that took four days to escape war-torn Ukraine came to an emotional end Friday evening when 15-year-old Mykhailo “Misha” Golod and his mother arrived in Orlando, Florida.
As chronicled last week in a Golf Digest story, Golod and his family had been sheltering in the basement of their Kyiv home as the Russian military approached the capital when golf instructor David Leadbetter reached out to the teenager via email with a plan to bring him to the U.S. and enroll him in the Leadbetter Academy.
“It was a scary journey,” Leadbetter said Saturday.