For Love of the Game Golfer Car ling Coffing talks about her life on the links

摘要

As an energetic young tomboy, Carling Coffing desperately wanted to play sports, just like her all-American wrestler of a dad and two athletic older brothers, Hut after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1991. at the age of 5, the would-be competitor was sidelined by a strict eating regimen and multiple insulin shots a day. That is. until she turned 10, and her dad suggested the whole family try playing golf together. As soon as the sixth grader swung a club for the first time, she knew she'd found her sport. "Golf was a great fit for me-it's a slow pace and I could eat and take shots on the course-and I fell in love with the game," says Coffing, who immediately started hitting the links every single day.