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A drunk driver cut short Brad Moretti's professional golf career. The head-on collision in Fort Myers in 1991 was so violent that Moretti's leg was broken, his ankle was shattered and his left eyeball popped out of his smashed face.

But Moretti's love of the game didn't falter, even as he recovered from injuries that wrecked his dream. In 1992, a year after the accident, he helped build an executive golf course in Punta Gorda called Emu Lakes and ran it for seven years, doing everything from mowing the grass to running the pro shop.

Eventually, Moretti oversaw golf-course construction and maintenance for WCI Communities, the Bonita Springs-based residential development company, from 2001 to 2004.