Positivity: MacKinzie Kline
It’s a long read, but worth every word (HT DailyGood e-mail):
Published: 10 May 2007
Playing against the odds: Girl with the greatest handicap of all
MacKinzie Kline is not merely a gifted golfer who has won a place on the professional circuit at the age of 15. She also has only a few years to live. Andrew Gumbel reports
There is more than one reason that MacKinzie Kline has been generating headlines in the United States lately. The most obvious of them is that she suffers from an incurable heart defect that will probably kill her before she is 30, and yet she has managed to work her way on to the women’s professional golf circuit at the tender age of 15.
That might be enough to grab anybody’s attention. What makes this girl really compelling, though, to both newspaper columnists and the high-profile golfers who have taken her under their wing, is that she doesn’t play the victim very well. In fact, for someone who needs a constant supply of oxygen and tires easily, she is both charming and, at times, downright pushy.
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