For the many, many of you who’ve been taken with young Kyle Lograsso, the five-year-old who’s used his love of golf to help him fight and overcome eye cancer, the recent HBO Real Sports program on Kyle is a must. It’s episode #124, and still available on HBO on Demand. Frank Deford was the reporter.
A transcript doesn’t do it justice, but here are few snippets…
On his first meeting with instructor Bob Huber:
BOB HUBER: Well, he called he said, “I got a three-year-old boy, I’d like to have you look at him.” I said, “Sure.
And that’s when local instructor Bob Huber first saw it: a pint-sized replica of Tiger Woods.
I just had ’em, put– gave some ball– golf balls there on the practice range, and he started hitting them, and– and it was like, “Wow.”>
Did you know that he had– was missing an eye?>
His dad told me that. But, when I watch him …