Dayton Price played golf Thursday and Friday.
Unbelievable.
At the Quito Tennis & Golf Club in Quito, Ecuador, at the KIA Open de Ecuador presented Diners Club, an event on the PGA Tour Americas development circuit, Price played. He is there with an exemption from sponsors. If you are interested, you can find his results by clicking herebut they are not important.
Maybe you’ve heard of it his story. Just over four years ago, a van carrying members of Southwestern University’s golf team was hit by a truck, killing six players and a coach. Only Price and teammate Hayden Underhill survived. The award has been extensively rehabilitated.
And there he was on Thursday and Friday, golfing among the pros.
Playing golf, period.
Unbelievable.
Belowyou can find an interview with Price before the tournament and there are five affiliates (PGA Tour Americas, PGA Tour, Golf Canada, ProSports Latam and Price Strong, a website dedicated to Price). The interview is excellent and you won’t find a better story this holiday weekend.
To help you out, below the video are some of Price’s quotes.
In the hospital
“I take them to every golf tournament I go to. I take them with me everywhere I go. Not even in golf, but in life. My teammates and my coach, they wanted to play professional golf. They wanted to advance their golf careers. That opportunity was taken away from them. So I’m living all their dreams. Trying to take them with me and show them the world, show them where to be kind. Where is my trainer, you know, I would live and they said that we will have to cut off your legs:
To participate in the Canadian Open in 2022 (the prize is from Canada.)
“When I was in the hospital, I got so many phone calls, so many people supporting me. I got cards from the local church, kids down there, people came to see me. Parents of kids who had passed away, coming to see me was unbelievable. To walk out of there and get a call from Golf Canada saying, ‘Hey, do you want to come to the Canadian Open?’ My sister, she had a countdown marker when it was the Canadian Open, and we agreed that I would try to get out of there for that date, come home so we could go as a family. Watching (Rory McIlroy) and watching him win was, yeah, I want to get back there, I want to play golf on the tour. And at the time, I didn’t – again, like, I wasn’t close to going out and playing. I couldn’t play more than three holes at a time. Watching him win… was really inspiring to me.”
The first time he was back playing golf
“I went back, I played with some friends. And I was playing the red tees, which are the front tees there. And the par-5, maybe about 400 yards. I was probably hitting my driver about 150 yards, just hitting it out there. Yeah, I got it there. I think I hit a 3-wood off the green and chipped it like 2, putt. Crazy, because it was my first hole, I tell everybody that, you know, it was the front tees, though, it wasn’t, whatever you call it, like a legal birdie off the tees, but yeah, it was so surreal to get back out there and play the game that I loved that I couldn’t play for a long time much more.”
On his teammates and coach
“The way I think about it, of course, I still think about them. And it’s hard sometimes, but they — you know, I play more golf. That day we played wasn’t the best round that we all played. We thought we would have gone out the next day and played, but luckily I did, but those opportunities were taken away from them. I have the privilege of seeing my family and my friends every day and the privilege of playing golf like this.
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