KAWAGOE: Xander Schauffele’s triumph at the Tokyo golf was especially emotional for his swing coach father Stefan, whose own Olympic dreams were crushed nearly 40 years ago.
Stefan Schauffele had hoped to represent Germany in track and field but a car crash left him blind in one eye, a blow that took him years to get over.
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