After 4 holes into the shotgun start, we approached the 11th hole, a par 3, playing 100 yards over water. The pin was front left and we had a 5mph wind at our back.

I was deciding between a 50 degree gap wedge, which I usually hit 90 yards, and a knock down pitching wedge, which I usually hit 125 yards. I choose the 50 degree gap wedge.

Before I hit, I asked somebody in my group about the 3 times he hit a hole in 1 and then my partner hit his shot over the water, but fell back off the green onto the bank. After asking my partner whether he wanted me to play more conservatively and hit the pitching wedge, he told me to stay with the 50 degree gap wedge.

I pured the wedge onto the green, one bounce, rolled for a yard or two and then disappeared into the hole! We all went wild!

What makes me proud is that this happened 2-years after I golfed in Arizona at We-Ko-Pa Cholla and on the 17th hole, from 110-yards out, tried to hit a punch 6-iron through a tree and my ball riffled off the tree, right into my left eye, pouring out blood, detaching my retina and risking removal. Five surgeries later, my eye remains and my retina is attached. Despite not being able to see much out of my left eye, that wasn’t going to stop me from still loving playing the game of golf.