Cayeux is back!

HARARE — Marc Cayeux shot a three-over-par 75 in the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open pro-am this week and it took as much courage as all of his nine Sunshine Tour golf titles combined.

On a day after which a sporting event was bloodied by an unspeakably cowardly act of violence in the United States, Cayeux played 18 holes on the Royal Harare Golf Course he loves so much and took another step back to a distant goal of playing professional golf after a horrific motor accident in 2010.

And while he would be the first to applaud the bravery of those who will emerge from the Boston Marathon bombings and rebuild shattered lives, his own story speaks of incredible courage after that head-on collision on a Zimbabwe road saw a police officer dead, and Cayeux’s own life in danger as he was airlifted to a Johannesburg hospital.

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