How Adaptive Golf Champion Jake Olson Finds Beauty In The Game
Photo Credit: Susanne Nilsson
This is a fascinating story by PGATOUR.com contributor Helen Ross. Very inspirational and well worth the read. - ed
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
Jake Olson was eight months old when doctors told his parents he had bilateral retinoblastoma, and they would need to remove his left eye.
For the next 12 years, Olson lived as normal a life as possible – playing golf and flag football – in between chemotherapy treatments as the cancer kept attacking his right eye.
At first, the chemo was introduced into his bloodstream and left him “sick as a dog,” Olson recalls. “It was pretty much poisoning your body to death, and you hoped that the cancer died before your body did.”
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