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From hospital bed to golf cart in just 3 years

Mokena resident Kurt Leschkies sits in an adaptive golf cart at Sanctuary Golf Course in New Lenox Friday, June 21. The golf course purchased the cart so that Leschkies and others with disabilities can play golf. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media
Kurt Leschkies practices some drives off the range at Sanctuary Golf Course in New Lenox Friday, June 21, using an adaptive golf cart purchased by the golf course. Leschkies suffered a severe spinal cord injury after a fall in May 2016. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media
TJ Kremer III, Contributing Editor
4:00 am CDT June 25, 2019
On Friday nights at Sanctuary Golf Course in New Lenox, you can find Mokena residents Kurt and Yvonne Leschkies playing in a couples league, as they have been for the better part of the last 10 years.

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