TO Casey Martin, player who successfully sued the PGA Tour for the right to use a cart due to a rare circulatory disease has had his right leg amputated.
Golf Digest magazine, which has been in contact with Martin for a few weeks, reported on its website that he had surgery on Friday and was recovering in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Her brother said that the doctors think everything went very well, that she will have a good chance of getting an effective prosthesis.
Martin suffered from Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, which restricted movement in his lower right leg and made it nearly impossible for him to walk 18 holes.
Still, he managed to train and play well enough to win the PGA Tour card for the 2000 season.
His lawsuit citing the Americans with Disabilities Act reached the United States Supreme Court, which voted 7-2 in favor in a 2001 decision.
Martin, a teammate with Tiger Woods on the Stanford National Championship team, has been Oregon’s golf head coach since 2006. He qualified for the US Open in 2012.
The magazine notes that Martin, 49, broke his right leg two years ago, which ultimately led to the decision to amputate the cast and a series of injections failed to heal the tibia. . “In many ways, I got over what doctors told me when I was a kid,” Martin told Golf Digest two weeks ago.
“I always thought it would be my destiny. So while it is strange to be here now, on the verge of being seriously disfigured, it is not unexpected. ”
