The mother and father {of professional} golfer Grayson Murray on Sunday mentioned the two-time PGA Tour winner died by suicide Saturday morning.
“We’ve spent the final 24 hours attempting to come back to phrases with the truth that our son is gone,” Eric and Terry Murray mentioned 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 at all times straightforward for Grayson, and though he took his personal life, we all know he rests peacefully now.”
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 explanation as sickness.
“We’ve so many questions that don’t have any solutions. However one. Was Grayson cherished? The reply is sure,” his mother and father mentioned of their assertion. “By us, his brother Cameron, his sister Erica, all of his prolonged household, by his buddies, by his fellow gamers and — it appears — by lots of you who’re studying this. He was cherished and he can be missed.
“We want to thank the PGA Tour and your entire world of golf for the outpouring of help. Please respect our privateness as we work by way of this unimaginable tragedy, and please honor Grayson by being type to 1 one other. If that turns into his legacy, we might ask for nothing else.”
Murray spoke about alcohol and psychological well being previously, saying he used to drink throughout event weeks as a rookie as a result of he knew he had expertise and felt he was invincible. He made an enormous turnaround this 12 months and gained the Sony Open, hitting a wedge to three ft for birdie on the ultimate gap to get right into a playoff and profitable it with a 40-foot putt.
“It took me a very long time to get up to now,” Murray mentioned in January. “That was seven years in the past, over seven years in the past. I am a distinct man now. I’d not be on this place proper now in the present day 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 minimize in his Masters debut, ending 51st, and was within the subject for subsequent month’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2.
Murray, who grew up in North Carolina, was among the many most proficient juniors within the nation. He gained the distinguished Junior World Championship in San Diego three straight years and earned the Arnold Palmer Scholarship at Wake Forest.
He wound up going to 3 schools, lastly at Arizona State.
Murray mentioned when he gained the Sony Open in January that he had been sober for eight months, was engaged to be married and felt his greatest 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, mentioned grief counselors had been on-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 tough to see. And actually simply profound,” Monahan mentioned throughout the CBS broadcast Saturday.
“Grayson was a outstanding participant on the PGA Tour, however he was a really brave man, as effectively. And I’ve at all times cherished that about him, and I do know that the locker room is full of individuals that actually will take that away when they give thought to Grayson.”
Info from The Related Press was used on this story.
