The first time I met Tom Isaacs was playing golf with him at the Berkshire. Immediately I was blown away by the fact that he refused to give up a sport he loved just because he had Parky’s. On a par 4 he had about 100 yards left and he played a beautiful shot that went straight in the hole. I threw my arms in the air and turned around to give him a high five only to notice that he had disappeared. About 5 seconds pass with me being very confused, then a bush nearby starts to shake and Tom comes bounding out from the middle of it. He threw his hands up in the air and said ‘Sorry about that, I decided to celebrate with a double backward roll down this hill’.
That’s how he lived his life and it’s how I’ll always remember him.
Mike Tindall remembering Tom Isaacs
Illustration by Call Me George