The Irish Amateur With Cystic Fibrosis Playing in The Open

Psychosis, thirty pills a day, and a dream that nearly didn’t happen. David Howard’s road to Birkdale.

David Howard was 13 when he Googled - “what’s the typical life expectancy of people with cystic fibrosis?”

Google told him the answer - mid 20s.

How would you feel if you saw that?

What plans do you make for your life?

That 13 year old David Howard is now a 27 year old playing in The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Before this year, he had never been t…