The dad and mom {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 come back 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 need to admit it to ourselves, however that we additionally need to 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.”
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 liked? The reply is sure,” his dad and mom stated 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 liked and he will probably be missed.
“We want to thank the PGA Tour and all the world of golf for the outpouring of help. Please respect our privateness as we work by means 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 up to now, saying he used to drink throughout match 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 received 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 up to now,” Murray stated in January. “That was seven years in the past, over seven years in the past. I am a special man now. I’d not be on this place proper now as we speak if I did not put that drink down eight months in the past.”
He additionally received the Barbasol Championship as a 22-year-old PGA Tour rookie in 2017.
Murray, who was No. 58 on this planet 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 area 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 received 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 faculties, lastly at Arizona State.
Murray stated when he received the Sony Open in January that he had been sober for eight months, was engaged to be married and felt 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 have 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 stated throughout the CBS broadcast Saturday.
“Grayson was a exceptional participant on the PGA Tour, however he was a really brave man, as properly. And I’ve all the time liked that about him, and I do know that the locker room is stuffed with folks that basically will take that away when they consider Grayson.”
Info from The Related Press was used on this story.
