FORMER
PGA
TOUR
PR
& GOLD’S GYM MEMBER
BATTLES BACK When Will Brown began working out at Gold’s Gym, he couldn’t walk for very long on the treadmill and could only do a few reps on the weight machines. “And then I would have to go home and take a nap,” he candidly admits. Brown’s story, however, isn’t one of someone just out of shape. In fact, the 43-year-old is a former PGA Australasian Tour pro who currently teaches teens at the River Golf Club. It is, however, the story of someone who has battled back from surgery to correct deformed vertebrae and has fought squamous-cell carcinoma since August of 2009. Brown credits his workout partner, Dr. Rich Pawl (who also has squamous-cell carcinoma), and their almost daily visits to Gold’s Gym with giving him the three months in remission he currently has under his belt. “I’ve gone from 150 to 198 pounds. I gained 50 pounds and it’s been all muscle. My arms are three inches larger than when we started working out,” he said. “I think, to say the very least, that it has prolonged my quality of life.” Of course, Brown started out at 230 pounds before being beset with health problems. It began after he left Yibin, China, and the Australasian Tour and went to the English home of his caddy. “At that time, I was missing a lot of [tournament] cuts because of