PEABODY, Mass. (AP) A water polo player-turned-swimsuit model who didn’t pick up a golf club for decades, Kurt Van Hees told himself during a near-death experience, ”If I get out of this alive, all I’m going to do is play golf.”
On Thursday, he will tee off in the U.S. Senior Open.
The 51-year-old Californian was added to the field as an alternate Sunday and hopped on a red eye to Boston that night, fighting off the migraines and stiffness he still feels from a 2010 attack that left him unable to play more than four holes at a time.