PALM COAST, Fla. -- Tim Simpson used to have a glass half empty approach to golf. If things didn't go his way, he'd get discouraged and frustrated.
That all changed when he underwent a massive nine-hour brain surgery. Simpson had a hereditary condition that caused a benign essential tremor in his left hand. Naturally, this didn't help on the golf course. Imagine having to make a putt when nothing can stop your hand from shaking.
The operation took place just over three years ago. Everything went so smoothly that, within a few days, he was back on the golf course.
"I never lost faith that somehow, some way, someone would help me," Simpson said at the time. "I may never be 100 percent. But I feel like with the talent I have left and with the incredible desire I have, there are still great things in store for me."
After surviving that ordeal at age 49, he joined the Champions Tour. Now, three years later, he thinks his swing and his game are getting back to where they were at his prime.
Simpson's confidence is also back. Shooting rounds of 69 and 68 for a 7-under-par total in the first two days of the Ginn Championship at Hammock Beach Resort have helped remind him that he belongs here.
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