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Erik Compton, the golfer with two heart transplants, has received another exemption into the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney next week. Compton also received an exemption last year and tied for 60th. He was allowed to ride in a cart, just five months after his second transplant. Tournament chairman Kevin Weickel says Compton will be walking this year.
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Erik Compton breezed through the first stage of Q School at PGA Golf Club's Wanamaker Course, shooting 22-under-par 68-67-65-66=266, winning by seven strokes. Compton had three eagles, 21 birdies and only four bogeys (or worse) on the week. A year ...
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Seven first-stage PGA Tour Q-School qualifiers down, six more to go. And double heart transplant patient Erik Compton is moving on, but New Zealand teen phenom Danny Lee and Hawaiian Tadd Fujikawa are heading home.
Compton, who underwent his second heart transplant in early 2008, won the first-stage qualifier in Port St. Lucie, Fla., today by seven strokes. Twenty-two golfers advanced out of that qualifier, and also among them was Justin...
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Beginning Wednesday (Nov. 18) and continuing through Saturday (Nov. 21), six second-stage qualifiers take place this week on the road to PGA Tour Q-School finals.
Major-championship winner Shaun Micheel is among those playing, as is double-heart transplant patient Erik Compton. Justin Peters, the winner of the very first Big Break, is still chasing his big break; and former phenom Ty Tryon continues his chase, as well.
There are plenty of...
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Erik Compton has made it through the first stage of PGA Tour qualifying without any drama, shooting a 66 to win his site by seven shots. Compton was among 22 players at PGA Golf Club who advanced Saturday to the second stage. There are 13 sites in the opening stage of Q-school, in which nearly 1,000 players compete for about 25 PGA Tour cards.
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