'I don't want to regret anything': CF sufferers on seizing the extra days thanks to advances in treatment

'I don't want to regret anything': CF sufferers on seizing the extra days thanks to advances in treatment

David is now 25 and well on his way to achieving a once-impossible future: becoming potentially the country’s first pro-golfer with Ireland's most common genetically explicit disease.

A young Cork mechanic has quit his day job to follow his dream of becoming a professional golfer despite having Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

Just over a year ago David Howard plucked up the courage to play golf full time and give his dream a go. “I am pursuing a career in golf at the moment which is scary and exciting at the same time,” he told the Irish Examiner. 

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