If you looked on Lee Williams’ official PGA Tour profile, you’d see that his motto is, “It doesn’t matter where you’ve been but where you’re going.”
Williams embodied that motto to the fullest, as he was able to pull himself up from what he considered the “the worst year I’ve ever had of playing golf” to regain a spot on the PGA Tour.
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