I hope you have patience to read all this, my 3 year comeback story.
I have been playing Taylormade equipment since I started working in the golf industry when I was 18 in 2007. I worked as a Pro Shop Assistant in New Jersey for 3-4 years while attending college to get my Business Management degree and then enroll to become a PGA apprentice after I graduated. That was all put on hold at the end of the 2009 golf season just before I started my junior year of college. A fellow staff member turned a cart to sharply and rolled over a curbed onto the cart part at full speed landing the cart on top my legs and the roof missing my head by a few inches. I woke up with the driver of the cart pulling it off my legs and then pulling me back into the pro shop before calling the ambulance.
I had broken my left foot (plant foot, as I am right handed) clean in half, 12-14 places total and tore knee ligaments. I split my head open as if bounced off the concrete and had a large baseball size gash on my temple. I tore two golf ball size chunk of skin out of my knee and tore the skin off the top of my foot. I was stuck in for 14 days because of the intense swelling and pain and had to redress the wounds 3 times a day to keep from becoming infected. I lost almost 20lbs over these 2 weeks before finally being able to move around just as school started. I was on crutches and in a full leg brace and large boot.
A few months later, on top of taking 15 credits of college classes, I began my intense physical therapy to re-learn how to walk/run and move without pain. It was 3 hours a day, 3-4 days per week and it took me 12 months before being cleared to run/golf again. Luckily the wound to my head healed without any major scaring, and the large scars on my knee slowly faded and became less sensitive. At this time I graduated college in the spring of 2011 and began working as the Golf Operations manager at Country Club in Virginia and had to relearn the game of golf all over again. Each day the pain (which is now constant) became more and more manageable and I was able to find a way to move onto my left foot/knee without fear of reinjuring it. From the time I started playing golf again in the middle of 2011, I couldn’t break 85 as I continued to have trouble with my leg. This was a long fall from the single digit handicap I was before my accident. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to regain my skill and the mobility that it took play at a high level.
I set out to continue practicing and strengthen my leg and foot trying to regain my form. It took another 15 months to go from a basically a new golfer, to a low handicap of 2, as close to where I was before my accident. At this time I finally was able to attempt to take my PGA playing ability test in October of 2012. I passed on my first attempt and was able to start the process to register to become a PGA Apprentice. At this point, nearly 3 years after the accident I feel I am finally back on track to my goal of one day becoming a PGA Professional. I have attempted to get on staff for TMAG but I am not far enough along in the PGA program yet to have that happen.
I would love the opportunity to be custom fit and tour all the new facilities that Taylormade has just built. Taylormade has been my club of choice for 5 years and wouldn’t play anything else. They are the first clubs I recommend to customers looking for something to try. At 5'5" without full mobility in my leg and foot, I could use all the help I can get hitting my irons longer and more consistently. I hope you guys find my story worthy of selecting!
Thanks for taking time to read all of this.
Edited by Caesar Palache, 12 November 2012 - 07:24 PM.
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