Photo courtesy Phil Kalz
Photo courtesy Phil KalzLocal group helps disabled attain links access
Nearly 40 years ago, Roy McCoy and an amputee friend started playing golf together and organizing yearly tournaments in Tyler, Texas. In the 1980s, McCoy formed the Texas Amputee Golf Association, which gathered amputees from throughout the state for games of golf. The original organization was later absorbed into the National Amputee Golf Association and was renamed the Southwest Amputee Golf Association.
Today, McCoy, who lives in Round Rock, helps lead SWAGA, which has approximately 300 members from a nine-state area including Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
"We're growing a little at a time," McCoy said. "We even have some [members] in Illinois and California who are out of our region but have been here for some purpose and played in our tournament and enjoyed it."
