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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Dennis Walters joined some of golf’s greatest names as the USGA’s Bob Jones Award recipient in a ceremony at Sebonack Golf Club on the eve of the U.S. Open.
Walters, 68, brought a prop to show the audience his connection to the icon whom the award is named after.
“My first club was a Robert T. Jones driver,” Walters said in his speech. “I have kept this wee Bobby club for 60 years, and I brought it with me. Here it is.”
Walters was honored for his devotion to the game even after an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down when he was 24 and a promising young pro in New Jersey.