PINEHURST, N.C. — For more than four decades, Dennis Walters has dazzled hundreds of thousands of golf fans with his trick-shot show, from Augusta National to St. Andrew’s and just about everywhere between, all while strapped to the seat of his golf cart.
He has become one of the most famous faces in golf, known around the world, and the message woven through the theatrics has never changed. If you have a dream and it doesn’t work out, that’s okay, because the solution is simple: Get a new dream.
That was Walters’ mantra from the moment he was paralyzed from the waist down in a golf-cart accident 48 years ago, putting an abrupt end to one aspiring professional golf career and launching another. And then, Sunday, as Walters tried to hold back tears, he relayed how that message had changed when he entered the inaugural U.S. Adaptive Open, the USGA’s first-ever national championship for golfers with disabilities.
