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Tom Watson Continues Fight for ALS Cure | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

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SONOMA, Calif.–It’s impossible to watch Tom Watson in action at Sonoma G.C., in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, and not think of his late friend and caddie, Bruce Edwards (right). Stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Edwards was able to work for the last time at the 2003 Schwab Cup Championship. The progressive neurodegenerative disease took his life April 8, 2004. He was 49.

Watson has worked hard since Edwards’ death, doing what he can to support research for a cure for ALS, a fatal disease that usually claims its victims three to five years after diagnosis. He remains heavily involved with Driving for Life, a fund-raising organization, but admits that medical progress has been slow in coming.

“Nothing of significance has come from any  drug trial with ALS,” Watson said this week, “significance meaning a 7 percent reduction in the progression of the disease. Nothing. Zero. Nada.”

Watson mentioned one …

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