Nowadays, Compton is learning how to adjust to playing tournaments at the collegiate and professional level. He was especially happy to earn an exemption to play at Doral-Ryder Open because it's held on a course he played hundreds of times growing up in Miami. Doral sometimes eats pros alive. He was playing in the first pro tournament with the likes of David Duval and Phil Mickelson and it was happening in front of family and friends. Compton understands why people are fascinated by his life, and it is a great story.
Doctors say they have a donor heart.
Family races to the hospital as the new heart is transported to Miami from Tampa via helicopter. With only a four-hour time window, doctors transplant the new heart into boy's body. When Sports Illustrated covered the Compton saga, they convinced him to pose with his shirt off, giving readers a good look at the eight-inch scar on his chest. That was great.