Golfer hits hole-in-one despite being blind in 1 eye
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Four years after an errant golf ball cost him the sight in his left eye, Australia's David Fox is reveling in his first hole-in-one, The Courier-Mail reported in its Tuesday edition.
The 59-year-old may need sensors on his car to park without incident before each round, yet his "steering" with a club in his hand has never been better.
Incredibly, the same Rescue club he swung when his ball took a cruel ricochet in 2006 is the one he used to ace the 11th hole at the Nudgee Golf Club, seven miles from Brisbane's central business district, recently.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I was never the person to moan 'Why me?' when I lost my eye because I was lucky there was no more permanent damage," the Nudgee Golf Club finance director said.
"I dropped a ball in haste that was too close to a solid wooden hazard marker, flushed the shot and the ball came back at me just as quickly.
"It split my eyeball like a tomato and I lost the lens and retina in the surgeries that followed."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His hole-in-one came when struck the ball 160m into the breeze.
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