Danbury’s Ken Green, who lost the lower part of his right leg in an RV accident last June that killed his brother, Billy, his girlfriend Jeannie Hodgin and his dog Nip, has officially started his comeback to return to the PGA Champions Tour, playing in the Sunbelt Senior Tour’s event entitled “Ken Green’s Comeback Trail” Tuesday at the Rees Jones course at the Breakers (Green’s home course).
According to Breakers Director of Golf Operations, Dan St. Louis, Green shot an 8-over-par 80 in miserable conditions over the 6,670-yard, par-72 course.
“Kenny wanted to break 80 really badly but he bogeyed the last hole,” St. Louis said by phone Wednesday morning before heading out to play round two with Green today at 12:20 p.m. “Conditions were brutal here yesterday. We had winds gusts of over 40 miles an hour. It was terrible but Kenny played well.”
St. Louis said the winds wouldn’t be nearly as gusty (the weather service had them peaking at around 20 miles an hour) for the second round but that the temperature in West Palm Beach, Fla., was “cold.” It was only supposed to inch up into the high 50′s or low 60′s today.
Green, 51, is a five-time winner on the PGA Tour and was a member of the 1989 Ryder Cup team.
