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Dennis Walters remembers sobbing as his father cradled his head in his arms. It was late January 1975. The Bing Crosby National Pro-Am was playing on the TV in the Walters' living room in Neptune Township, New Jersey.
The celebrity-studded-annual PGA event from Pebble Beach included players Walters had competed against, while he led the North Texas State University golf team to four Missouri Valley Conference titles in the early seventies. All Walters could think about that January day is how he longed to be out there playing against them. Six months earlier, in July 1974, Walters' promising golf career ended when a golf cart accident left him paralyzed from the…
