'great Feeling' - Guan Returns After Losing Sight In Eye

Jeffrey Guan says it was a "great feeling" to play again professionally aft losing show successful his near oculus during a tourney past year.

The Australian, 21, was struck by a play shot past September while playing successful Sydney only 1 week aft making his US PGA Tour debut.

The incident near him unsighted successful 1 oculus but he vowed to return to nan crippled and spent months building to his comeback.

Guan, who is simply a two-time Australian inferior amateur champion, returned connected Thursday by firing a first-round 74 astatine nan NT PGA Championship successful Palmerston.

"Teeing disconnected nan first was genuinely a awesome feeling," said Guan.

"I wasn't tense astatine each from what I predicted nan past mates of days but location was a batch of mistakes retired location and heaps of room for improvement."

Guan had room successful New South Wales aft being struck by nan shot and spent 2 weeks successful intensive attraction aft being transferred to Sydney for a 2nd operation.

There he was told by doctors he was improbable to regain imagination successful his near eye.

Speaking earlier nan tourney successful Palmerston, Guan said he had to set to playing nan crippled pinch constricted vision, adding he didn't cognize what to expect and was experiencing "a operation of emotions".

"I didn't deliberation it was going to beryllium this twelvemonth but past I've been practising and I felt really bully complete nan shot and I was like, 'Why not springiness it a shot?'," he said.

"There were truthful galore times successful nan infirmary wherever I conscionable thought, 'Is this going to beryllium over'?

"I couldn't moreover eat. I couldn't really do anything. I wasn't allowed to locomotion because I had to support my oculus stable. So yeah, those thoughts were decidedly moving done my caput for three, 4 months."

Guan added he was taking his comeback 1 measurement astatine a time.

"I'm coming present pinch really nary expectations. I conscionable want to person nosy and benignant of conscionable play to spot wherever I'm at," he said.