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D&D Fitness Radio Podcast - Episode 030: Morgan Hoffmann - Finding the Drive to Play Through Adversity

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Episode 030 of the D&D Fitness Radio Podcast welcomes PGA golfer, Morgan Hoffmann. In 2017, Morgan announced that he had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, an incurable disease that causes progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. He noticed as early as 2011 that his right pectoral muscle was deteriorating and sought out medical specialists to determine what was going on. It took over five years for doctors to determine the muscular dystrophy diagnosis, all the while his muscle was atrophying and his swing velocity was decreasing. Morgan walks us through some of the therapies and approaches he has adopted to address the impact of muscular dystrophy on his golf career. His return to the PGA tour in 2018 has been nothing short of miraculous.As a youth golfer, Morgan Hoffmann won two consecutive New Jersey state championships. Morgan spent two years at Oklahoma State University on their golf team and was ranked as one of the top amateurs in the world in 2009. After playing in the 2010 US Open