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Posted by: Aye Chihuahua @ 6:00 am in Daily Distraction  | 55 views

It’s been a little while since this story happened but it’s still as inspiring now as it was then.

The story of Leo’s accomplishment was reported by newspapers and media organizations around the world.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Legally blind golfer, 92, shoots a hole-in-one, ducks attention

Leo Fiyalko would just as soon get on with life.

So he made a hole-in-one on the 110-yard, par-3 fifth hole at Cove Cay Country Club in Clearwater.

So what if it was the 92-year-old’s first hole-in-one in more than 60 years of playing golf?

Big deal.

And who cares if he is legally blind, with a condition called macular degeneration?

Fiyalko doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about.

“It was my first hole-in-one, and I never saw it,” Fiyalko said. “I was just trying to put the ball on the green.”

That’s about all he’ll say on the subject. But that didn’t stop his friends in the Twilighters Club golf group from presenting him with a plaque on Jan. 24 commemorating the feat. There is a picture on the plaque of the fifth hole and a line that reads: “Leo Fiyalko, hole-in-one, five iron, 110 yards.”

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Tom in CA
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That is so unfair. 40 years of playing golf with two good eyes and I haven’t gotten one.

Good for her.

August 27th, 2009 at 6:45 am
BarbaraS
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92…and still playing golf. Isn’t that great!!! And a hole in one…Even better. My mother and father played golf for 50 years and they never got a hole in one. They would be so jealous if they were still alive.

August 27th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Timothy
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A Dr. friend of mine (PHD bio researcher on eye diseases) predicts that AMD (wet and dry) and other retina diseases might become a “treatable condition” (like diabetes) within the next ten years. If caught early, such diseases can be put into a state of “limbo”. He predicts that within 20 years, it will become “curable” with a combination of drugs and stemcell treatments. Cybernetic research might become a moot point unless to bypass a destroyed optic nerve (or perhaps to be used an a cosmetic/military “enhancement”).

Newer laser treaments, drugs and advanced “eye shunts” will offer long term soultions to glaucoma as well.

He’s been working on this disease for about 15 years and has put a lot of work into it.

I just hope “Obamacare” doesn’t kill it.

August 27th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
MataHarley
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Thanks for the smile, Aye…. :0)

August 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

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