If you think there's no way the visually impaired can play golf, think again

Tim Hengst, who is legally blind, has been playing golf for about three years. Photos: TNS

More than a decade ago, Dave Zimmaro was working at a golf club during college when one of the club’s certified PGA instructors casually mentioned that his next student was blind and that they’d connected through the Junior Blind Golf Association (JBGA).

“I was, ‘Stop – are you kidding me? Blind people can’t play golf. C’mon’,” recalled Zimmaro, 33, now the youth golf director at Villanova’s Overbrook Golf Club in Pennsylvania, the United States. “I thought it was all an elaborate joke.”