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Dear Friends of Eric,

On December 12th Eric was checked into the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Jupiter Medical Center for some symptoms of heart failure.  His room mate happens to be an ER PA and she was with him that evening and recognized his symptoms and immediately brought him into the ER.  Eric was diagnosed with 95% and 75% arterial blockage to his heart.  She most likely saved his life at that moment in time.  He was treated and 3 stents  were put in to clear his arteries.   In addition to the heart issues, he was also diagnosed with severe gallbladder failure.   They were unable to operate and take it out due to his heart condition and in combination  with the new stents plus the blood thinners, they decided to hold off for 4-6 weeks to allow him to recover.   On New Years eve his gallbladder become very inflamed and possibly infected which sent him back into the ER for an emergency gallbladder surgery.  He is now recovering from that procedure.

Flashback to 2016 and it was quite an amazing year for Eric.  In pursuit of his professional golf career, he qualified for and competed in the 2016 US Senior Open Championship and won the Connecticut Senior Open in dramatic style winning by a stroke.  Feeling that his game was peaking, he entered the PGA Champions Tour Qualifying School in November and finished 14th out of a field of  some of the best golfers in the world. This provides him his conditional status as a PGA Champions Tour member for the 2017 season.   Feeling pumped and ready to roll, Eric has been in Florida getting ready for the start of the 2017 PGA Champions Tour Season.  All of you know his life long persuit to play golf on the worlds best Tour!  Unfortunately this crises  happened while he was making those other plans.  

This past month has dealt Eric some serious setbacks with his health and now a major setback to his financial circumstances.   Eric will have a fairly long road to recovery, rehabilitation and physical conditioning to get back on his feet and tournament ready.  Eric works as a caddie at the exclusive Dye Preserve Golf Club in Jupiter Fl and Burning Tree CC in Washington DC  as means to support himself when he's not playing golf professionally.  Unfortunately that won't be an option for the next several months and possibly beyond due to the surgeries.

The Big E Friends Network  is reaching out to the wonderfully supportive community  of friends, colleagues and business associates to help get Eric back on his feet, get healthy and return to playing golf on the PGA Champions Tour.   Eric has been very humbled by having to reach out this way but he needs some financial support to  help him through this time.  That's the bottom line.  If he could do this himself, he would as most of you know.  Eric is extremely grateful for all the friends, friends of friends and even strangers that have all reached out to show their love and support during this difficult time.  He feels that he has been given a second chance at life of which he is very fortunate for this  incredible gift.  This is one mulligan he is happy to take!   Once he is healed and back on his feet, he is determined to get back out and go low on his back nine of life.

Lets help Eric get back on his feet and take care of some of his financial burden as a result of this recent event.

Sincerely, 
The Big E Friends Network
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    Eric Egloff
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