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Months after heart transplant, Compton cards 76 in first stage of Q-school

By Bob Harig
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Charlie DeLucca gets emotional when talking about the subject. How could he not? He was around the first time Erik Compton got a new heart and needed the use of a cart to play golf. Back then, it was a pull cart. Now it's the four-wheel version, one that Compton drove across the fairways of Crandon Golf Course on Tuesday morning during the first round of first-stage PGA Tour Qualifying as a smattering of spectators, including his father, mother and pregnant wife, Barbara, ...

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