Trey Shirley made his first PGA Tour cut in his first Tour start in his home state of Kentucky at the Barbasol Championship. But the road there was a little longer than the drive from his Bowling Green home to the tournament site in Nicholasville.
Shirley, 31, was nearly paralyzed at 18 years old after being diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an infection that inflamed his spinal cord and put him in a wheelchair. However, doctors at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville helped him make a full recovery.
He then went on to play basketball and golf at Campbellsville University, but eventually would focus on golf.