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INSPIRING IMPACT

Fore the Love of the Game his left side, particularly his left arm.
Throughout Hogan’s childhood, the
Hogan Lust has become a teenage standout in Lusts encouraged him to try certain
one-arm golf association tournaments sports and activities, adjusting them
as he needed. In fact, in November
2021, Hogan rode the 27-mile El Tour
BY MELANIE PADGETT POWERS, MANAGING EDITOR
de Tucson bike race with an adaptive
recumbent bike.
Hogan Lust, age 16, of Tucson, Arizona, family history of hemophilia, it was But it is golf that became his passion.
has been playing golf since he was a unexpected and went undiagnosed When he was younger, he competed in
toddler. His parents, Daniel and Corby, until he began to have seizures the PGA Junior League as a member
are golfers too, so it was only natural during his first week of life. of his local country club’s team before
their oldest child would play the sport.
Hogan was diagnosed with severe aging out of the program. Several
“He had a golf club in his hand hemophilia A. A neurosurgeon had years ago, the Lusts heard about the
since he could walk,” Daniel said. to evacuate the bleed, which included North American One-Armed Golfer
However, Hogan had to learn golf removing his right frontal lobe and Association, but there was no youth
a bit differently, as he can only use part of his parietal lobe to relieve program. But by January 2019, the
one arm to swing. After his birth, the pressure on his brain. association had started a youth
Hogan had a brain bleed, but with no program and Hogan played, for the
The surgery left the baby with cerebral first time, with other teenagers who
palsy, causing played with one arm because of a
weakness on physical disability or limb deficiency.

ABOVE: Caddie Daniel and Hogan at the little boy’s first golf
event at age 3. RIGHT: Hogan on day one of stroke play at the
national championship in Michigan in September 2021.

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