Alexander Čejka is a Czech-German professional golfer. Čejka was born in Mariánské Lázně, Czechoslovakia.
Alex Čejka parents: Meet Alex Čejka St.
Alex Čejka St. is the father of the golf player Alex Čejka. Much is not known about his dad, but according to Čejka, He and his father escaped Communist Czechoslovakia when he was 9 years old. But Cejka, 51 and in his second season on the PGA Tour Champions, won’t say it still drives him.
Cejka (pronounced CHAY-kuh) and his dad traveled by foot and train, by swimming and biking through Yugoslavia, Italy, and Switzerland, before settling near Frankfurt, Germany. His father, an engineer with multiple college degrees, was forced to work in a restaurant busing and cleaning tables before he found a better-paying job.
“My dad taught me a great lesson when we came when I was a young kid. We came to a different country, I didn’t know how to speak the language, I didn’t have any money, and my dad didn’t have any money,” Cejka said Thursday at Firestone Country Club. “You learn to fight, the survival is there, and that shows it doesn’t matter if you are 15 or 23 or 40, that drive is there.
“The whole trip, the whole situation formed me into a person who thrives, doesn’t want to give up; if I fail, I’ll try again. But I don’t want to say it’s somewhere in the back of my mind. I was just too young to understand what situation my dad was in or how challenging or dangerous there were, but I think the whole trip formed me. It was tricky.”
Source: Ghanafuo.com
