Philadelphia, PA (Best E Casino) - Months after suffering a heart attack and having a defibrillator implanted because of an irregular heartbeat, Erik Compton underwent a second heart transplant earlier this week.

Compton, who had his first heart transplant at the age of 12, had been hospitalized for several days prior to the surgery.

After his first heart transplant, Compton took up golf as part of his rehabilitation process. He went on to a solid amateur career before turning pro in 2001.

The 28-year-old, who has played mostly on the Nationwide Tour with a few appearances on the PGA Tour, became the first organ transplant recipient to ever play in a PGA-sanctioned event.

Well-known swing teacher Jim McLean told the Palm Beach Post that Compton's hopes of continuing his golf career are a long shot following his latest procedure. However, Compton might be able to resume working as a teaching pro.

"It would probably take him a year before he could start working on his game," said McLean. "But with his age and the phenomenal shape he's in, I think he could come back and try to play. He's already done it once and his doctor told me how many advances they've made in the last 16 years."

MORE MEDICAL NEWS

Todd Demsey has been a Nationwide Tour regular since 1999, and during that time has experienced as many battles off the course as on.

In 2003, Demsey had multiple surgeries to battle a brain tumor. He fought through the procedures to play in 21 events that season.

Last year, Demsey teed it up 30 times, 29 of which were on the Nationwide Tour, before regaining his PGA Tour card through Q-School in December.

While he was battling to regain his tour card, Demsey was going through radiation following a return of the tumor.

Relatively healthy this year, Demsey had missed the cut in his first eight PGA starts before making it to the weekend at the AT&T Classic last week.

UNRETIRING? NOT REALLY

As the public continues to speculate about Annika Sorenstam's future in golf after last week's announcement that she'd step away from the game at the end of the year, Rosie Jones came out of retirement this week to tee it up at the LPGA Corning Classic.

This will not be a regular thing for the 13-time LPGA Tour winner. Jones returned to Corning this week to play the event for the 21st time, in honor of the tournament's 30th year celebration.

Jones, a two-time winner and two-time runner-up here, is the event's all- time leading scorer.

This was Jones' first appearance on the Tour since the 2006 U.S. Women's Open.

ODDS AND ENDS

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- In yet another Hollywood appearance by a prominent athlete, look for Phil Mickelson in a coming episode of Entourage on HBO. Mickelson recently spent two days on the set taping scenes for the show, which will reportedly air in September.