Constantine said he spoke with employees at the range and pro shop in an attempt to find his club. A spokeswoman for Army Navy Country Club said their director of security can help with this issue as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Golf became an important part of Constantine’s life after he was wounded during a 2006 deployment to Iraq. He was on a patrol as a civil affairs team leader attached to an infantry battalion when a sniper shot him. He wasn’t expected to survive, but clung onto life and began to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lt. Col. Justin Constantine, a retired Marine who was wounded by a sniper in Iraq, recently had several of his custom-made golf clubs stolen while at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va. Golf became important to him during his recovery from his wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Courtesy of retired Lt. Col. Justin Constantine<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Constantine said he occasionally golfed before he was wounded, but took up the sport in earnest during his recovery. The golf course was one of the first places he was able to shed the insecurities about his appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “My head was really swollen for a long time and I looked terrible and I didn’t really like to go outside very much because people were staring,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Golf became a good outlet during a tough recovery, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It was very therapeutic to be outside and get nice views and nature and think about hitting the golf ball and not all the other things in my life,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Constantine became a decent golfer in the process \u2014 he shoots in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said he could have been more careful with his clubs during the trip to the driving range, or he could buy new ones<\/span>. But the idea of someone, possibly a fellow veteran, re is more to this situation than golf. This stings, he said. There’s something about a veteran <\/span>stealing from a wounded warrior at a well-to-do country club is that’s innately <\/span>upsetting, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While frustrated, he’s not looking for someone to get into trouble \u2014 he just wants his clubs back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No questions asked,” Constantine said “I just want them to do the right thing and turn the clubs in. I’ll assume it was a mistake.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The golf course was one of the first public places retired Marine Lt. Col. Justin Constantine felt comfortable with his physical injuries after he was shot in the head by a sniper while deployed to Iraq. But a recent trip to the course left him frustrated after his custom-designed golf clubs \u2014 donated by a group that helps wounded veterans \u2014 were stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":41700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":19,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1951],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"4KY3VWLYHZBLPHRO2FK4VNN56A","arc_canonical_url":"\/veterans\/2015\/03\/28\/wounded-marine-s-custom-made-golf-clubs-stolen-at-club\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635629952118327716-arm-justin-constantine5jpg.jpg\")