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Who is Dennis Walters?
Golf has been the center of Dennis Walters’ life since he was eight years old, when he first discovered the game. He pursued his love for the game through competitive events with the goal of becoming a PGA Tour player.
On the way to that goal, he won the New Jersey Junior Championship, competed at the collegiate level for North Texas State University, and placed 11th in the U.S. Amateur Championship. In 1974, after turning professional, tragedy struck. A golf cart accident left him paralyzed from the waist down.
After months of hospitalization, therapy and rehabilitation, he began to hit golf balls from his wheelchair, but found it difficult to push the chair around a golf course.
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Dennis attached a swivel seat to the passenger side of a golf cart, and he was once again able to play the game he loved. As his game improved, he began to practice trick shots, and in 1977 The Dennis Walters Golf Show was born.
As one who has gone through the experience of a disabling physical injury, Dennis can personally attest that golf is a wonderful form of therapy, both for the mind and the body. It is not only recreational, but is a vehicle to improve one’s confidence and social skills. Dennis has expressed his admiration and support for Fore Hope. The program’s recognition of golf’s therapeutic benefits and utilization of resources to bring the sport to so many people are some of the many reasons why he endorses Fore Hope so much and why he serves as an advisory member.
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