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In this year's Blind golf world championships, Jeremy took first place with his father. The tall, handsome young man has been the darling of the media after the victory, and he now look forward to the 2012 World Championships and the 2016 Paralympic Games.
Genetic disease leading to blindness
Prior to the blind, Jeremy is just a normal college students love to play golf. His father, Lionel is a famous golf club manufacturing golf clubs for sale company engineers, from 12 years of age, his father every Sunday to play with a few shots. On the eve of Thanksgiving in 2008, Jeremy got up one day and found his vision is not normal. After examination, Jeremy was diagnosed with a hereditary optic neuropathy, the disease is no way to heal. Jeremy discovered this fact became depressed, low self-esteem, and even lost hope in life. Adhering to a few months later, the miracle did not happen, Jeremy vision degradation was very fast, was identified as "blind." When fathers go to play golf when Jeremy himself some harsh laugh.
Hope to play golf back
In the family have lost hope, an encouraging news to him. An aircraft accident to a man lost his house, his wife and newborn daughter, he burst into tears at a news conference, but still live, he said. "Suddenly, I figured out that a person can lose everything live, I just did not sight, than his situation a lot better, and why I can not continue to live on?" And so, after he lost sight 6 months before Jeremy started the courage to restore life, one important thing is to pick up the golf clubs again. Lionel has become the father of Jeremy's eyes, as he described from the hole, sand shape, the fairways of the rivers, lakes, ponds or streams location. Before each shot, the father Jeremy adjust the legs for the distance to the face and body remain parallel to the target. To find the exact direction of shots, Jeremy will be targeting the chin into the shoulder and his father.
14 months later, Jeremy got the winner in the World Championship, and he gave this award to his father. "Dad for all the work I've done, I just the swing man." Of course, this award has changed Jeremy's life completely. "playing golf makes me feel as before, so I now able to understand other people. "
