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of By Sonia Ramirez 60 | Oct • Nov 2008
ANFORD – With little fanfare, Diane Conti strides across the course at Carolina Trace Country Club, ready for her turn at the tee.
Conti is a legend here – she has made
15 holes in one, 14 of them on the two courses at Carolina Trace. Most golfers play the game without ever making a single ace. And if that weren’t remarkable
enough, this 63-year-old woman who has never taken a professional golf
lesson in her life plays with a prosthetic right leg. But on this sticky, late summer
morning, no one spares a glance at Conti’s leg. The foursome is too busy watching the ball instead. Conti moves quickly, cracking jokes, throwing her arms wide, Tiger Woods-style, after a play. She was born in Queens, N.Y., missing
a bone in her right leg that left it shorter than the other and made her foot very small. Doctors waited until she was 10
