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Dit was toe dat \u2019n denneboom, wat se wortels gevrot het, omge-val het en Loots teen sy agterkop getref het.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDit was \u2019n totale fratsongeluk,\u201d s\u00ea hy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDit het gere\u00ebn en ek het my selfoon laat val. Toe ek afbuk om dit op te tel, glip dit weer uit my hand, weer moes ek buk om dit op te tel en dit is ook die laaste ding wat ek daarvan kan ont-hou.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sy werknemers het inderhaas met hom na die naaste hospitaal in Ceres gejaag. Nadat hy gestabiliseer is, is hy per ambulans na die Mediclinic Panorama in Kaapstad geneem waar \u2019n brein- operasie op hom uitgevoer was.<\/p>\n<p>Met \u2019n 5 cm x 5 cm gat in sy skedel en drie gebreekte werwels in sy nek was die prognose nie goed nie.<\/p>\n<p>Maar hy het die operasie oorleef en vasberade en met die bystand van geliefdes en vriende het hy die lang herstelpad daarna aangedurf. <\/p>\n<p>Sy breinfunksie het algaande verbeter, maar hy het nie weer die gebruik van sy linker-arm en -been ten volle terug gekry nie en moes hard daaraan werk om sy spraak te verbeter. Wonderbaarlik is sy sig nie deur die ongeluk aangetas nie.<\/p>\n<p>Met sy lewenslus was daar egter niks mee fout nie. Hy het begin om rolbal te speel en het vyf jaar gelede na die Oos-Kaap teruggekeer en in Jeffreysbaai gaan woon waar hy begin het om volwassenes en kinders te leer gholf speel. <\/p>\n<p>So suksesvol is hy daarmee dat hy nou as die \u201cvyf minuut afrigter\u201d bekendstaan!<\/p>\n<p>Sy passie vir sport en behoefte om kinders uit agtergeblewe gemeenskappe in die Kouga-gebied gholfvaardighede aan te leer, het daartoe gelei dat hy onlangs saam met Albe van der West-huyzen (Jeffeysbaai) en Kelly-Ann Loots (Humansdorp) die Kowie Loots Gholf-akademie, \u2019n nie-winsgewende liefdadigheidsorgani-sasie in Jeffreysbaai gestig het. (Kelly-Ann Loots en Kowie Loots is nie verwant nie.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns het die akademie gestig om die kinders \u2019n vaardigheid aan te leer wat in die toekoms dalk vir hulle van waarde kan wees,\u201d s\u00ea Van der Westhuyzen, bemarkingsdirekteur van die akademie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMet die akademie sal ek nie net die kinders leer gholf speel nie, maar ons glo ook dat dit hulle uit die strate \u00e9n uit kattekwaad sal hou,\u201d voeg Kowie by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaar word ook beplan om \u2019n voedingskema hierby in te sluit om te verseker dat die kinders \u2019n maaltyd sal ontvang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die bekendstelling van die akademie het verlede week in Jeffreysbaai plaasgevind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOns is dankbaar vir die borge Andr\u00e9 Bosch, Nomads en Paul Zone wat die gholfstokke en -sakke en T-hemde geborg het asook die BP-motorhawe in Jeffreysbaai wat die eetgoed vir die geleentheid geborg het,\u201d s\u00ea Kowie.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Enigiemand wat graag hierby betrokke wil raak, hetsy 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