sledgehammer in his hands. “It felt tremendous.” He doesn’t hit the ball like he used to, he lost distance, and that’s understandable. His lone acceptance to the cancer was adding a hybrid club to his bag. Kendall mostly plays at Washtenaw, which he and some partners bought just before the pandemic. The ownership group has put significant dollars back into the course and Ray Hearn was brought in to lead the restoration. the flag stick square and ricochet 30 yards back and into sand or water. Just like life, It’s how you respond to adversity…... It’s not the shot, that defines you. With his diagnosis, Kendall hit the flag stick, but moved on. Dying isn’t a choice, everyone does it, eventually. Living life to its fullest, though, certainly is a choice, one that Kendall — predictably to all those he’s played with and worked with and taught over his five-plus decades in the sport, lives by. “Everybody’s rooting for Dave.” Said Doc Pearson, who’s worked at Washtenaw for seven years: “He did say to me, ‘Doc, I don’t know if I’ll play again.’ I said, ‘Dave, who knows? And if you can’t, you’ve given the game everything you can.” Golf is arguably the toughest sport on the planet. It can’t be perfected. Your game can be great one day and trash the next. It also can be totally unfair. You could hit the shot of your life but it could strike Michigan Golf Journal
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