Golfers on The Front Lines

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Overview

We invited four frontline workers to share their stories about their effort to help the human race during the COVID-19 pandemic. What has it meant for these professionals to risk their lives to help others? How has golf helped them cope? These stories are a vivid reminder of the human cost of this virus, but also of our resolve and shared humanity.

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Golfers on The Front Lines: Calvin Gardner

Calvin Gardner, 46, a healthcare worker at Stamford Health in Connecticut, lost his father to COVID while he was on the frontlines risking his own life. He didn’t even get to say goodbye. “Nobody should die alone unable to see their loved ones.”

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Golfers on The Front Lines: Christine Bonamici

Christine Bonamici, 26, works in the emergency department at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. After a week of long shifts in the ER during some of the worst weeks of the pandemic, the golf course became “the perfect place for me” to find balance, she

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Golfers on The Front Lines: Haley Campbell

Haley Campbell, 25, a third-year nurse at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, compares her first day working in the COVID unit to an apocalyptic scene from a science-fiction movie. “It was shocking and disorienting,” she says.

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Golfers on The Front Lines: Scott Russell

Scott Russell, 54, is a paramedic in the Nassau County Police Department in New York. During the height of the pandemic surge in New York in the spring, Russell said he averaged 14 emergency calls a day. Almost all of them COVID related.