The mother and father {of professional} golfer Grayson Murray on Sunday stated the two-time PGA Tour winner died by suicide Saturday morning.
“We have now spent the final 24 hours making an attempt to return to phrases with the truth that our son is gone,” Eric and Terry Murray stated in a press release. “It is surreal that we not solely must admit it to ourselves, however that we additionally must acknowledge it to the world. It is a nightmare.
“… Life wasn’t all the time straightforward for Grayson, and though he took his personal life, we all know he rests peacefully now.”
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Grayson Murray, 30, withdrew from the Charles Schwab Problem at Colonial after the sixteenth gap of Friday’s second spherical in Fort Price, Texas. The PGA Tour cited the rationale as sickness.
“We have now so many questions that don’t have any solutions. However one. Was Grayson beloved? The reply is sure,” his mother and father stated of their assertion. “By us, his brother Cameron, his sister Erica, all of his prolonged household, by his mates, by his fellow gamers and — it appears — by lots of you who’re studying this. He was beloved and he might be missed.
“We wish to thank the PGA Tour and the complete world of golf for the outpouring of assist. Please respect our privateness as we work by way of this unbelievable tragedy, and please honor Grayson by being type to at least one one other. If that turns into his legacy, we might ask for nothing else.”
Many gamers competing at Colonial on Sunday wore black-and-red pins on their caps in honor of Murray. These are the colours of the Carolina Hurricanes, his favourite NHL group.
“Clearly it was fairly troublesome to return play golf,” stated Scottie Scheffler, who tied for second at Colonial. “However like his mother and father stated, he would have needed the event to proceed.”
Murray spoke about alcohol and psychological well being up to now, saying he used to drink throughout event weeks as a rookie as a result of he knew he had expertise and believed he was invincible. He made an enormous turnaround this 12 months and gained the Sony Open, hitting a wedge to three toes for birdie on the ultimate gap to get right into a playoff and successful it with a 40-foot putt.
“It took me a very long time to get so far,” Murray stated in January. “That was seven years in the past, over seven years in the past. I am a unique man now. I’d not be on this place proper now at this time if I did not put that drink down eight months in the past.”
He additionally gained the Barbasol Championship as a 22-year-old PGA Tour rookie in 2017.
Murray, who was No. 58 on the earth rating, was coming off a tie for forty third within the PGA Championship final week at Valhalla. He additionally made the lower in his Masters debut, ending 51st, and was within the discipline for subsequent month’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
Murray, who grew up in North Carolina, was among the many most gifted juniors within the nation. He gained the celebrated Junior World championship in San Diego three straight years and earned the Arnold Palmer Scholarship at Wake Forest.
His first coach was Ted Kiegiel in North Carolina, who like so many others was devastated.
“Phrases can’t specific the tragedy of this second,” Kiegiel stated in a press release despatched to The Related Press. “Grayson got here from one thing that was abnormal and made it EXTRAORDINARY. … He burned vivid for the 30 years he gave us.”
Murray wound up going to a few schools, lastly at Arizona State.
Murray stated when he gained the Sony Open in January that he had been sober for eight months, was engaged to be married and believed his finest golf was forward of him. He was appointed to the PGA Tour’s 16-member participant advisory council the identical month.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, who flew to Texas on Saturday, stated grief counselors had been on web site on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour occasion.
“To be within the locker room, to see the devastation on the faces of each participant that is coming in, it is actually troublesome to see. And actually simply profound,” Monahan stated through the CBS broadcast Saturday.
“Grayson was a exceptional participant on the PGA Tour, however he was a really brave man, as effectively. And I’ve all the time beloved that about him, and I do know that the locker room is full of folks that basically will take that away when they give thought to Grayson.”
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
