After binge watching the new series of Netflix's Full Swing documentary, I couldn't help but love Tom Kim. His likeable demeanour and ambition is very endearing, but it was his gritty resilience to battle through injury at the Open Championship that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole.
There are plenty of examples in golf of players that battled through pain to be triumphant, which in comparison to other sports appears to be disproportionate in its regularity. So, what is it about the examples below that spurred them on to achieve against all odds?
