being (almost) 70, all the nice things that have happened in my life? I’m grateful. I’m not sad at all. I’ve never spent one day being sad. We’re all gonna go sometime.” Only given a few months to live, Dave attacked the cancer like he was Tiger Woods trying to win a major. “Maybe, I’m one of the lucky ones.” “People are telling me these miracle stories of people who beat the odds and lived 10 years. That’s nice. I hope I’m one of them. I really do, and I’ll do everything I can to be that. There still are things you can’t beat. You can have the best attitude in the world. It doesn’t mean if you died, you had a bad attitude.” The disease affected his appetite and he was down to 129 pounds and OK with the reality of his situation, both in life and in golf. After beginning chemo treatments, Kendall started eating again, and in July, he started chipping and putting, and played his first round. Just nine holes, from the red tees. The golf club felt like a
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