Jake Olson, Blind HS Golfer

[billchao]

http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2015/04/jake-olson-is-blind-plays-vars.html

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Jake Olson was not unlike other kids of his generation whose interest in golf was stoked by Tiger Woods. He was an enthusiastic golfer, but not a serious one, until Woods won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2008.

Six months later, Olson played the same South Course at Torrey Pines and the hook was set. “I fell in love with the game then and there,” he said. “It was really cool to play a course the caliber of Torrey Pines where Tiger had won. So I really wanted to start practicing hard and maybe make a professional career out of it one day.”

Then, suddenly, he was unlike other kids of his or any other generation. “I was playing decently for a 12-year old,” he said. “Then I learned I would have to go blind.”

(Photo courtesy of TravisMathew)

When Olson was a toddler, he was diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer, retinoblastoma, that cost him his left eye. He battled the same cancer in his right eye for the next 12 years, then he lost that eye, too.

Ok, I'm impressed.