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LitlBuck;1487258; said:There is another Chris Smith thread that was started yesterday by BrodyBuck21 regarding the above. See this thread
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...merican-1991-big-ten-conference-champion.html
After family tragedy, touring pros have rallied to Chris Smith's cause
Thursday, May 20, 2010
By BRAD TOWNSEND / The Dallas Morning News
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IRVING ? Chris Smith awoke in his Peru, Ind., home at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. He drove to Indianapolis, flew to Atlanta, then to Dallas.
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But his plan to play a late-morning practice round for the HP Byron Nelson Championship was foiled by news that his golf clubs had been diverted to Detroit.
"To be honest," Smith mused, "if I'd have had that day six months ago, I would have been really unhappy."
Eleven months ago, his wife, Beth, was killed and their two children were critically injured in an auto wreck, on Father's Day, casting a pall over the PGA and Nationwide Tours, where 40-year-old Chris Smith splits his pro career.
At 1:16 p.m. today at the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas, Smith makes his fourth PGA Tour start since the accident. He's here because the Salesmanship Club gave him a sponsor's exemption. He's here because his children begged him to return to golf.
"They've inspired me," Smith said Wednesday of Abigail, 17, and Cameron, 13. "Beth would want happiness. It's what we all have strived for, forever. Just because something tragic happens, you've got to look forward and be happy and enjoy life."
Chris Smith rediscovers golf after tragedy
by GEORGE RIBA/WFAA TV
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Posted on May 19, 2010
IRVING, TX - It's not uncommon for pro golfers to struggle from time to time, but for Chris Smith, nothing compares to his struggles this past year.
Last June, Smith lost his wife Beth in an accident when the SUV she was a passenger in, struck a Greyhound bus carrying members of a Canadian football team. His two daughters, who were also in the car, both survived.
"It's just a horrible situation, a horrible event, a tragic terrible thing but it happened for a reason," Smith says.
Smith didn't play professional golf for nearly eight months after that tragic day in Indiana. It's been a long road back. Getting a sponsor’s exemption to play in this tournament certainly helps him get his feet back on the ground.
"I think you obviously draw on your faith and I have lived my whole life knowing that everything happens for a reason," Smith says. "I don’t' think you’re always supposed to know what that reason is."