{"id":772283,"date":"2026-09-16T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772283\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:50:15","slug":"taunton-golfer-returns-to-coaching-after-recovering-from-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772283\/","title":{"rendered":"Taunton golfer returns to coaching after recovering from stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stroke resulted in loss of movement on Andrew&#8217;s right side and required rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After spending six days in hospital, he returned home to begin exercises to regain movement in his hand, arm and leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They would put coins in front of me and asked me to pick them off the table. I had to do as much as I could to get the signals from my brain to my hands, legs and feet again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The golf professional hopes his experience will inspire others to return to doing what they love after a health setback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really tough and really dark sometimes, but I got through it with the support of my wife, my family and the guys here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stroke resulted in loss of movement on Andrew&#8217;s right side and required rehabilitation. After spending six days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772283","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\/772283","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=772283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}