Ballyneal June 20th 2011 Great cause

[Jordan Caron]

Just met a Ballyneal member Jim Colton on Twitter who brought this to my attention so I thought I would share it with the forum.


Ballyneal is well known as a walking-only golf club, but it’s a safe bet that the private course in Holyoke will allow a motorized cart if Ben Cox wants to play a few holes there this summer.

That would be the fondest dream not only for Cox himself, but also for the members at Ballyneal -- where Cox was one of the first “honor” caddies -- and many residents of northeastern Colorado.

Cox, a 2006 graduate of Haxtun High School, is paralyzed from the chest down after a spring-break accident he suffered while skiing with his dad on St. Patrick’s Day at Monarch Mountain in south-central Colorado. Cox’s mom, Melinda, said doctors have indicated there’s only about a 3 percent chance that Ben will walk again after breaking his C6 vertebra, along with his femur in three places and his nose.

But that hasn’t stopped a young man who loves golf from setting a goal to play the game again -- preferably this summer at Ballyneal.

“My ultimate goal is to play again,” Cox said this week in a phone interview from his room at Craig Hospital in Englewood, where he’s been doing rehabilitation for more than five weeks. “If I have to duct-tape my hands to the club, I’ll do it.”

Full article here

http://www.cogolf.org/journal.php

[Pete_Pittock]

Jordan,
It's covered under http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,47963.0.html

[Adam Clayman]

You can't have too many notices on something like this. Thanks for posting Jordan

[Jordan Caron]

I thought I remembered seeing something posted but a search for Ballyneal produced nothing.

Ran or any moderator, please delete or megre this thread.

[Jim Colton]

Jordan,

  Thanks for the link. I hope you can make it out on the 20th.

  The article has a lot of detail, but three things are readily apparent:

   1. Ben is a good kid.
   2. The need is huge.
   3. I'm a golf-obsessed idiot.

   I could tell the writer thought I was nuts, which probably isn't far from the truth. Hopefully this will spark some additional interest.

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