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Episode 62: A Guru of Adaptive Golf

Episode 62: A Guru of Adaptive Golf

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 Our guest this week lost his right arm in a 1993 workplace accident, but that didn’t hinder his passion for golf in the least. Al Gentry founded the Kentucky Amputee Tournament in 1994, which has allowed individuals with various disabilities to enjoy competitive golf. Gentry also helped established the North American One-Armed Golfer Association. Pull up a seat as he describes the nature of his incident, the disabilities commonly represented in the Kentucky Amputee Tournament, and the other means by which he has been instrumental in the growth and development of adaptive golf. Enjoy this hole-in-one episode. To find out more about the North American One-Armed Golfer Association, visit www.naoaga.org To learn about adaptive golf tournaments in other areas, along with a set of adaptive golf standards co-authored by Al Gentry, visit the United States Adaptive Golf Alliance web page www.usaga.org Visit the Kentucky Secretary of State at vrsws.sos.ky.gov Register to vote at vrsws.sos.ky.gov/ovrweb As a disabled person, if you have trouble registering to vote or casting your ballot, call the Kentucky Protection And Advocacy Hotline 1(800)372-2988 Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript He developed a passion for golf at a very young age and despite losing his right arm in a workplace accident come about 1993, he continues to golf regularly and also helping inspire others in his shoes to golf regularly as well through his creation of the Kentucky Amputee Tournament which we'll talk about here shortly along with the North American One-Armed Golfer Association which he co-founded along with a few others, also the Fightmaster Cup which is also known as the Rider Cup of One-Armed Golf commonly, a lot of people refer to it as that and he also published a book of golf standards for individuals with disabilities maybe limited to one arm like Al is and so that's actually unique because it was the first of his kind to ever be published in the United States so all of these and even a little more that we can dabble in as we go along here with a man who's actually a state representative as well representing the 46th district which includes part of the city of Louisville and then somebody's coming to us today from the state capitol so please welcome via zoom in Frankfurt none other than Mr. Al Gentry. Al it is a pleasure to have you aboard here thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule there in Frankfurt to join us. Have you seen Andy lately? Have you seen the governor floating around? Yeah I run across Andy every now and then so we're not in session at the time when we are in session we meet pretty regularly but we're in what we call the interim session so we actually work on committee meetings on the committees that we work on but yeah from from time to time I bump into the governor. Yeah I figured you did and I know he spreads his business across the state so no telling where he is today but at any rate we're sure glad you're here now how long have you been a state representative Al? Well Sam I was elected in 2016 so my first legislative session was in January of 17 and in my if I can count right in my fifth term right now. Yeah I was gonna say you've served continuously ever since so you know it's obviously still still going strong and momentum is certainly in your favor now you're a lifelong Louisvillian I know and you've held a steady passion for the game of golf most if not all of your life sir so first off why don't you tell us sort of when and how you developed an attachment to the sport? Okay well it goes back to I guess I was probably 11 or 12 years old and and when I was a kid growing up I loved playing every sport I could I was very active and in my grade school years St. Lawrence Catholic school I played about every sport a man could play or a boy could play I should say so it was rare that you sat down yeah when I got into high school I was exceptionally talented in the game of golf so I played golf now I had two arms back then I was very I was so good at golf I really had to quit the other sports and focus on the one sport because you know how that works when you're good and you play at a certain level you got to do it all the time just to stay at that level and continue to improve yeah I really didn't like that a whole lot because I liked playing so many other sports so as the story goes by the time I made it to my senior year in high school I was being heavily recruited in ...
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