[Richie3Jack]

Thanks for some of your background 3Jack. I found it particularly interesting that a life threatening illness brought you back to golf...more advisedly G.O.L.F. From personal experience I can tell you that it is futile trying not to do what you love doing! That of course does not change the fact that golf like Gary Player once said is "...a game of sorrows."

Thanks for the kind words. While I was sick I often thought about two things in particular.

1) I had to get shots to help with my low blood counts at a particular clinic. The main customers in this clinic were cancer patients whose future was looking bleak, to say the very least.

2) My Grandfather, a WWII veteran who was awarded the Silver Star and was a member of Patton's 3rd Army.

I'm sure there were times when my Grandfather wanted to be in other places besides having to fight the Nazis and as bad as my condition was, I know the cancer patients would give just about anything to be in my shoes then and especially now that I'm healthy.

I can only say that I feel that I owe it to them to do the things I love doing to the fullest.




3JACK