Rolls was in Tasmania with his Australian Rules Football team-mates when he was struck down with meningococcal septicaemia at the age of 18. He was given just a five per cent chance of survival at one point and his parents rushed from Melbourne to the hospital, where Rolls had three bleeds to the brain which left him in a coma for five and a half weeks.

When he awoke, his right leg was amputated at the knee, half his left foot had to be guillotined, two fingers were lost, and his nose was damaged. Nine years later, he took the choice to also have his troubling left leg amputated.

Rolls, now a motivational speaker and published author, credits golf - which he first played as a boy and then had to learn to play again twice after the loss of each leg - with playing a huge part in his recovery.