\n Wade Metcalfe wears two prosthetic legs, after losing both due to complications from his Type 1 diabetes, but it has not slowed him down on the course.\n<\/p>\n
\n And his remarkable hole-in-one, via his trusty 9-wood, on the 18th at Branshaw Golf Club has delighted the community, with people on social media and in the streets queuing up to congratulate him.\n<\/p>\n
People have ‘stopped me’ in the street<\/p>\n
\n Mr Metcalfe spoke to us after Branshaw Golf Club put us in touch with him.\n<\/p>\n
\n He told the T&A: \u201cIt\u2019s a feeling you don\u2019t forget.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019ve been stopped in Keighley with people congratulating me since it happened.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019ve hit the flag three times on the second hole before, but I\u2019ve been trying to get that first hole in one for years and that 9-wood is just what I use on the 18th.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
‘It was my lifeline after I first had my legs removed’<\/p>\n
\n Mr Metcalfe spoke emotionally about Branshaw Golf Club, where he has been a member for six years and where he plays four times a week.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cIt\u2019s my only form of keeping my mental health stable and the course is only round the corner from me, so that\u2019s a good thing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was my lifeline after I first had my legs removed, after being housebound for around eight months.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Metcalfe wears two prosthetic legs (Image: UGC)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cTo get out and just see good people on the course means a lot.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI go up with my best mate and I\u2019ve got a good group of friends up there.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Metcalfe was remarkably candid about the reasoning behind losing his legs, saying: \u201cI\u2019m Type 1 diabetic and I\u2019ve had that condition since birth.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019ve abused it, so this is payback.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n But Mr Metcalfe said that with somewhat of a chuckle and he was upbeat when speaking to the T&A about his achievement.\n<\/p>\n
Lovely gesture from golf club<\/p>\n
\n He was asked whether he hoped this hole-in-one could inspire other amputees or those with disabilities, who may have felt sporting achievements were beyond them.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Metcalfe responded: \u201cYeah, it shows there\u2019s still stuff out there.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cLike I say, it\u2019s my way of getting out and making my mental health stable again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n And Mr Metcalfe has since received a lovely message from Keighley Golf Club\u2019s Lady Captain Bea Hopwood, inviting him and two others to come and play there free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wade Metcalfe wears two prosthetic legs, after losing both due to complications from his Type 1 diabetes, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}