(July 14, 2022) – Connecticut Golf Hall of Famer Ken Green will be among those competing in the inaugural U.S. Adaptive Open slated for July 18-20 on Course No. 6 at the Pinehurst Resort.
Green, a five-time winner on the PGA TOUR and 1989 Ryder Cupper, lost his lower right leg in a recreational vehicle crash in 2009 but that hasn’t changed his love for the game that has given him so much.
“I think [the U.S. Adaptive Open] is important for golf because golf can be very healing,” Ken Green said. “Not everyone handles disaster as well or as fortunate as I have. To me, this was a challenge and I want to do everything I can for the game of golf and for me whether I have a leg or not. This is just another chapter that gives me another opportunity to build golf.”
The championship will be contested over 54 holes of stroke play. It is open to males and females, professionals and amateurs, with either physical impairment, sensory impairment (vision), or intellectual impairment, who have a WR4GD Pass as well as an authorized World Handicap System (WHS) Handicap Index® of 36.4 or less.
“It is difficult because there are so many different disability categories so I didn’t know what the USGA was going to do and how they were going to handle it but I think it will only help and hopefully 20 years from now it will be a little bigger,” Green said.
Following his appearance in the U.S. Adaptive Open Green will travel to Connecticut to compete in the 88th Connecticut Open at New Haven Country Club where he won the title in 1985.
Connecticut will also be represented by Trevor Stephens of Greenwich and Steven Shipuleski of Plainfield.
About the Connecticut State Golf Association
The Connecticut State Golf Association functions as an extension of the USGA and provides stewardship for amateur golf in Connecticut. Founded in 1899, it is the country’s oldest state golf association and conducts over 60 Championships, Qualifiers, and One Day Tournaments throughout the year.
