CALGARY — Steve Blake has a powerful message — don’t give up on your dreams no matter what life throws your way.
The Calgary golf professional is gearing up for playing in Canada's lone PGA Tour Champions event of the season while battling inoperable Stage 4 lung cancer.
"The more I have something like this tournament coming up to look forward to, the more alive I feel," Blake said."I don’t feel like I’m sick. I feel like I’m just this normal guy who’s going to practise for this tournament coming up and hopefully I’ll be around for the next one and so on and so on. He is looking forward to playing the sport he loves, possibly alongside fellow Canadians Mike Weir and Stephen Ames.
The devastating news was a shock to the system for Blake, his wife Kelly and their kids Connor, 25, and Brooklyn, 22, who are both accomplished athletes. "I’m always looking for something to take my mind off the illness,” said Blake, who works as a financial adviser. “I’m still trying to be very active in work. I’m still trying to be very active in golf and in my kids’ sports and things like that."
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