How My Alzheimer’s-Riddled Mother Helped Me Win the Cobra Skills Challenge at the PGA Demo Day

For the last three years as I have been writing about golf, I have tried to figure out a way to include my Mother, Pauline (Polly) Alexander, in one of my stories. Her battle with the insidious Alzheimer’s disease, which she is losing badly just like everyone else, drags on interminably. And yet, I wouldn’t be writing about golf or competing in tournaments today if it weren’t for her. She spent hours sitting in her car while I hit balls as a junior golfer. As a divorcee she paid out green fees and tournament fees that she probably couldn’t afford and helped me get from tournament to tournament.  She was a classic golf mom. But in so many ways she was much more than just a ... more