No handicap: America’s ultracompetitive — and uplifting — blind golfers’ trophy drive is in full swing

Jeremy Poincenot was just 19 when he learned he was going blind thanks to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, a genetic optic-nerve disease.

His father, Lionel, had bought him a new set of golf clubs for Christmas shortly before the diagnosis, but Jeremy had lost his sight by Dec. 25.

Undeterred, his dad still handed the clubs over. “I thought it was a sick joke,” the son tells The Post. “Why would you do this to me?” he asked. “I didn’t have the mental capacity to be grateful. I was still in that frame of mind where life just wasn’t fair.”

But Jeremy and Lionel headed to a local driving range after Christmas. “I wasn’t ready to go and play on a golf course. I felt too embarrassed,” he says.

Then it happened.

“I said, ‘If I swing and miss the ball, then I’m done,’ but there were a hand