Now I See – High Contrast Edition

About Now I See

One morning in November, 1944, as American tanks punched into Germany, Captain Charley Boswell was caught by a searing explosion. After agonizing months of surgery and uncertainty, he faced the crushing realization that he would be blind for life. For the former University of Alabama football star, a crack athlete with hopes before the war of a career in professional baseball, blindness seemed an insurmountable obstacle to normal existence. Then Charley Boswell was introduced to the world of blind golf.

Now I See is the story of his slow, painful readjustment to daily life, the struggle for a successful business career, the part that home, family and friends played in this uphill fight. It is also the story of his amazing achievements as a blind golfer and the important part golf has played in his life. Since 1947, he has won more than twenty national and international tournaments, the Ben Hogan Award, and many other honors.

His own account of his remarkable career will be an inspiration to anyone who faces and seeks to overcome crushing handicaps.

Written by Charley Boswell

Charley Boswell lost his eyesight helping a wounded soldier escape from a burning tank in a World War II battle. Home from the war, suffering the pain of futile operations, his last hopes destroyed, he faced up to the responsibility of supporting his wife and small daughter. In younger days, he’d played football for Alabama, those great Crimson Tide teams; his home town remembered him and he found himself representing a sporting goods store—then selling insurance—none of it satisfied him. He took up golf, learned that he wasn’t ‘blind’, but merely ‘saw’ in a different way. He became National Blind Champion in golf 15 times. Now I See is his story, an inspirational narrative whose appeal is in its poignant authenticity…we’re out there swinging with Charley.