‘I can’t walk, but when I got that call, I felt like I could fly’

Forget Tiger Woods and his remarkable victory at the Masters in April. The greatest comeback in golf that I know of is Dennis Walters who went from promising young golfer one day to a paraplegic the next. On Monday, at the Sunset Center, Jack and Barbara Nicklaus introduced him as he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame along with Retief Goosen, Jan Stephenson, Billy Payne, and the late Peggy Kirk Bell.

Walters, 69, is one of golf’s most inspirational figures, and if you’ve never seen his one-man show, you’re missing out. He’s got one club made from a fishing rod, one made from an old crutch, one that’s an actual radiator hose, and another made from a mobile phone. He hits a golf ball off a watch and balances an egg on a ball and then hits the ball without breaking the egg. He’s one of golf’s most entertaining trick-shot artists.