Thirty years ago, Zohar Sharon was a top Mossad operative who lost his sight on a secret mission. Today, he’s the world’s best blind golfer, defending a string of world championships, even though he’d never even been on a golf course before. Yet, his trophy-lined living room is more than just a showcase for the number-one man on the green. It’s become a place for nurturing the growth of Torah in an apathetic, secular community.
The clipped tense silence on the course is broken by the crack of Zohar Sharon’s five-iron as the golf ball flies into the distance. Sharon can’t see it but he can tell by the whack and the air current that it was a good shot just inches away from the 130-meter flag he was targeting on the practice green.
“Totally straight” he says flashing the huge smile that rarely leaves his face. “A peles [level].”
Sharon a former IDF officer and Mossad and Shin Bet operative who lost his sight 30 years ago in a field mission is the world’s best blind golfer defending a string of world championships since 2000 when he entered his first professional tournament.
But the story of Zohar Sharon 57 is more than the sum total of the dozens of trophies that line his living room in Moshav Aviel near Hadera. It is the story of a military hero’s rise and fall – and rise again with a spirit revealed through deep faith hard work intense concentration and an internal overhaul.
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