’ll admit to feeling a little nervous as I sit in a back room at The Shire London with Cae Menai-Davis, whose family run the golf club there. Why? Well, I’m there to chat to Charlie Crosby and his father, Lee, about Charlie’s rehabilitation and return to golf following a major medical episode in 2019 that turned their lives upside down.
I’m nervous that I won’t know quite what to say, but I shouldn’t have worried. A few moments later, there’s a bit of a kerfuffle and much laughter outside before the pair walk in and Charlie greets me with a big, cheeky smile. Yes, walks in – a miracle in itself and something I definitely wasn’t expecting given what I knew of Charlie’s situation.
Laughter remains a common refrain throughout the interview, along with the odd tear from Lee when something I ask triggers a particularly poignant memory. The family has had to travel a long road since that day in June 2019 when Charlie was found unconscious on the floor of his girlfriend’s university flat at 23 years of age.
You may have seen a DP World Tour video from the day Charlie and his family were invited to the BMW PGA in 2021, and they believe certain European Tour pros were instrumental in Charlie coming out of his coma in 2019, more of which in a moment. First, though, how good had Charlie got at golf
