Kyle Lograsso

Kyle Lograsso takes everyone's breath away. His story begins in 2004 when the Lograsso family lived in Japan when Kyle's father, Jeff, was assigned as a member of the United States Marine Corps. During a family cookout, Jeff's golf loving friend watched Kyle swinging a stick like a golf club. Jeff's friend said then that the barely 2 years old Kyle had the "Perfect golf swing." Jeff's says : "And this was from a guy who played golf all the time. That's when I started thinking something was happening."
Unfortunately, challenging news soon came. A few weeks after his 2nd birthday, the doctor diagnosed Kyle with bilateral retinoblastoma, or eye cancer, in both eyes. The diagnosis made the family fly back to the US where Kyle's left eye was removed to prevent the cancer from spreading to his optical nerve and brain. The young Kyle then underwent six months of grueling chenotheraphy to save his right eye. During the seasons, Kyle developed a near fatal blood infection and was unable to play with other children because of the tubes in his chest.
However, he kept swinging a club in the house for hours at a time and in 2005, Jeff was finally able to take the three year old Kyle to the golf course for the first time. A pro-golfer remarked that Kyle had great golfing skills. "The first thing he said when he saw Kyle was that he swung just like Tiger Woods," Jeff said. "That's when I really knew something was going on."
During a visit to an indoor range in 2006, Kyle attracted the attention of another player who, it turned out, was married to an anchor at the Philadhelphia TV station. The station aired a piece about Kyle in 2006. After it aired, a fellow marrine suggested that Jeff upload videos of Kyle on Youtube. "We spent a few days visiting it every 10 minutes or so, and we'd get so excited when we saw the hits going up to 30 and 100. "Jeff says, adding that the hits rose to 50.000 a month later.
Golf digest saw the video and did an article on Kyle, whitch became the most viewed online article in the publication's history. "And from there, it just took off," Jeff says. "We had everybody calling us - HBO, the Ellen DeGeneres show. It was jus unbelievable."
Today, Kyle, who will turn 9 years old on May 28, is busy fulfilling many golf invitations, including charity events such as the Texas based golfers Against Cancer.
"I had seen the first Youtube video and thought he was a neat little prodigy, and as fate would have it, I was working the PGA Merchandhise Show in January 2008 when Kyle and his father stopped by my booth," Jim Aswell, a retired oil businessman who sits on the charity's boards, said. "The first time Kyle came too our gala, we showed that video and there wasn't a dry eye in the place. He's a great motivational story, not just for people with cancer, but for their entire families, which also are so greatle affested." he added.
Kkyle is trully remarkable when considering his handicap of having a prosthetic left eye. "No one understands how he can play golf with absolutely no depth perception," Jeff said. "He shouldn't be able to gauge distances when putting, but he can. It amazes everybody, from me and my wife to some of the best eye doctors in the world. No one knows how he does it."
Kyle has been cancer free for five years. And althought he has made exemplaryprofessional and personal achievements, he keeps hiself humble and low key. When people comment that he will be the next Tiger Woods, he simply says: "No, I'm just Kyle.."

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