I wasn’t born with the freedom to run. From the very beginning, my legs were out of line with the life I dreamed of living. I spent most of my childhood and teenage years in and out of hospitals, bracing for surgeries that came in waves—one after another—each one trying to fix what my body couldn’t fix on its own. There were screws in my bones, uncertainty in my future, and days when walking felt like an impossible destination.

But then there was golf.

Golf became the one place where I didn’t feel broken. It gave me something to reach for—something that didn’t require perfect legs, just patience, rhythm, and heart. While I couldn’t run like other kids, I could swing. I could aim. I could compete. And in that quiet space between my club and the ball, I found freedom.

The turning point in my journey came at the hands of an extraordinary doctor. Dr. Roger F. Widmann, MD, at Hospital for Special Surgery, didn’t just operate on my legs—he changed the course of my life. Thanks to him and the team at HSS, I no longer live with pain or limitation. I’m fully healed. I walk without hesitation. I play without fear. And I carry something else with me now: a responsibility to give back.

That’s why I created Eagles of Tomorrow Foundation—for the kids who are still waiting for their miracle, for their movement, for their shot at a full life. Some may never get the perfect version of what they were born without, but that doesn’t mean they can’t fly.

In golf, an eagle is the next best thing to a hole-in-one. In life, a prosthetic is the next best thing to being born with full mobility.

We give children their eagle—their chance to soar.

Eagles of Tomorrow isn’t just a name—it’s a belief. That a child with one leg can still feel like they have wings. That second-best can still be beautiful. That strength doesn’t come from being untouched by hardship, but from rising in spite of it.

This foundation is my way of paying forward the grace I received. Of turning my past into someone else’s possibility. And of making sure that no child ever feels like their story ends before it even begins.