In keeping with Grayson Murray’s mother and father, the two-time PGA Tour winner “took his personal life” on 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. It’s surreal that we not solely should admit it to ourselves, however that we additionally should acknowledge it to the world. It’s a nightmare,” Murray’s mother and father, Eric and Terry Murray, stated in a press release launched via the Tour on Sunday morning. “We have now so many questions that haven’t any solutions. However one. Was Grayson liked? The reply is sure. By us, his brother Cameron, his sister Erica, all of his prolonged household, by his pals, by his fellow gamers and – it appears – by a lot of you who’re studying this.
“We wish to thank the PGA Tour and the whole world of golf for the outpouring of help. Life wasn’t at all times simple for Grayson, and though he took his personal life, we all know he rests peacefully now.”
A press release under from Grayson’s mother and father, Eric and Terry Murray.
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Murray, 30, withdrew from this week’s Charles Schwab Problem on Friday with an sickness, in line with the Tour.
“I’m perplexed,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan stated in a press release. “The PGA Tour is a household and whenever you lose a member of your loved ones you’re by no means the identical. We mourn Grayson and pray for consolation for his family members.”
Monahan additionally stated Murray’s mother and father requested that the Charles Schwab Problem in Fort Value, Texas, proceed. The Tour deliberate to offer grief counselors at Colonial and this week’s Korn Ferry Tour occasion.
Murray, who had handled alcohol and mental-health points prior to now, stated in January after profitable the Sony Open that he had been sober for eight months and was engaged to be married.
“Numerous onerous work pays off. It’s not simple. I need to surrender quite a lot of instances, surrender on myself, surrender on the sport of golf, surrender on life at instances,” Murray stated on the Sony Open. “Simply persevere, and whenever you get uninterested in preventing let another person combat for you. That’s what occurred.”
Murray, who was appointed to the Participant Advisory Council earlier this 12 months, additionally gained the 2017 Barbasol Championship.
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