Coach, what is wrong with my game?
One day a player asked his coach: “What is going wrong with my game?”
“You’re standing too close to the ball after you’ve hit it.”
July 31, 2018
By Ben Everill, PGATOUR.COM
Jarrod Lyle put up the fight of three lifetimes against cancer but the extremely popular Australian PGA TOUR player has made the heartbreaking decision to cease active treatment and begin palliative care.
Lyle, a two-time winner on the Web.com Tour, has been a champion to countless people after overcoming acute myeloid leukemia first as a teenager and then again at the height of his career on the TOUR.
But David can’t always beat Goliath.
It returned for a third time last year and although Lyle underwent a haploidentical transplant with the help of his brother in December his body has been unable to hold up.
In recent weeks Lyle had trouble with his eyesight and speech and the decision to end treatment came overnight.
While his body is leukemia free, the myriad of treatments and medications have taken their toll.
He will now spend his time with wife Briony and his young daughters Lusi and Gemma.
“My heart breaks as I type this message. Earlier today Jarrod made the decision to stop active treatment and begin palliative care. He has given everything that he’s got to give, and his poor body cannot take anymore. We’ll be taking him closer to home in the next couple of days so he can finally leave the hospital,” Briony wrote in a statement.
“Jarrod knows he is loved, and the thousands of prayers and well wishes that have been sent his way have kept him going through some incredibly tough times. But he has reached his limit, and the docs have finally agreed that they can no longer strive for a positive outcome.
“My focus as of today is on our girls and doing whatever I can to get them through the challenges ahead. Jarrod will be closer to them very soon and will spend as much time as he can with them.
“When it’s appropriate, I will post details of a memorial service. In the meantime we ask that you respect our privacy at this difficult time.”
The news hit the PGA TOUR community hard.
“We’ve learned of Jarrod’s plan to stop treatment and begin palliative care. Our entire TOUR family is grieving this news, but we certainly respect and support his decision to spend the coming days with his beautiful family – it’s a decision true to everything he has stood for throughout his life and career: grace, dignity and an unending love of family,” Commissioner Jay Monahan said. “We are respecting Jarrod’s family’s request for privacy, but they know we are here for whatever they need during this difficult time and beyond.”
“I didn’t want to believe it, it is just devastating,” longtime friend Robert Allenby said. “Jarrod always has a smile on his face. His determination has inspired so many people around the world.
“That’s why so many people have sent him so many prayers and well wishes. He is a golfing icon because of the character he has shown to the world. We send all our love to him and his beautiful wife and daughters in this tough time.”
Allenby met Lyle when he was just a teenager going through his first bout of the disease through a cancer charity he works with in Australia.
The fact Lyle not only beat the disease but forged his way onto the PGA TOUR to play against him still floors him to this day.
“I knew he was good, but to be as great as he was, with the cards he was dealt. It just shows what a great fighter he is,” Allenby added.
“And to this day – you’ll never meet a bigger fighter. I’m not sure anyone could have fought as hard as he has. I know I wouldn’t have had that willpower.”
Adam Scott was emotional on hearing the news.
The former Masters champion was hoping for a miracle and said Lyle had always left him smiling in their hundreds of encounters.
“I can’t imagine being in that position; it’s unthinkable,” Scott said. “He is one of the best blokes there is. Given all the difficulties he’s had since his late teens, he has lived the best life he could with the tough cards he has been dealt.
“He has done better than anyone would have. He was out on TOUR for so long, playing such good golf while battling illness. He has been through it all. His positivity and general demeanor have been so good and so infectious on others; it’s a good way to think of how I should live my life.”
Jason Day, who has young children of similar ages to Lyle and who lost his father to cancer at a young age couldn’t help but sympathize.
Day also went through a cancer scare with his mother in the last few years.
“It’s hard news to take and it is so unfortunate,” Day said. “It puts things in perspective. We are out here trying to compete but at the end of the day there is life and family we need to be there for.
“We all love Jarrod. He’s such a good bloke. It’s not fair he’s going through this. It is going to be tough going forward for his family, sadly no amount of wishing and wanting can change some things. But I am sure everyone in the golf community will continue to support them the best we can.”
Getting the right result
“You’re late on the tee, John.”
“Yes, well being a Sunday, I had to toss a coin to see if I should go to church or go and play golf.”
“Okay, but why are you so late?”
“I had to toss it 15 times!”
Read more at https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/features/the-game/20-best-golf-jokes-90683#cTkSDlZd2wQsG1cB.99
Not what you think
Golfer to caddie: “Why do you keep looking at your watch? I find it very distracting.”
Caddie: “It’s not a watch, sir – it’s a compass.”
Read more at https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/features/the-game/20-best-golf-jokes-90683#SDmjfc68lLc5ixKF.99
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez became the first Spaniard to win the Senior British Open on Sunday, edging defending champion Bernhard Langer by one shot.
Jimenez dropped only one stroke en route to a final round 3-under 69 and ended on 12-under 276 at the historic Old Course.
Jimenez was following in famous footsteps as the second Spaniard to win at St. Andrews after Seve Ballesteros won the British Open in 1984.
“This is the place where everyone wants to win and the place where Seve won his second British Open,” Jimenez said. “It has always been my ambition to win here. It feels like I am part of history.”
The 54-year-old Jimenez played the sort of round every professional golfer dreams of on the final day at St. Andrews, and often in unpleasant — occasionally vicious — weather conditions.
Langer shot a 68 to come second.
Americans Kirk Triplett (69) and Scott McCarron (68) tied for third alongside Canada’s Stephen Ames (69). All three finished on 10 under.
Jimenez won the Regions Tradition in May, holding off a hard-charging Steve Stricker for his first senior major title.
Eggs..?
Golf balls are like eggs.
They’re white.
Sold by the dozen.
And a week later you have to buy some more.
A golfer sliced a ball into a field of chickens, striking one of the hens and killing it instantly. He was understandably upset, and sought out the farmer. “I’m sorry,” he said, “my terrible tee-shot hit one of your hens and killed it. Can I replace the hen?”
“I don’t know about that,” replied the farmer, mulling it over. “How many eggs a day do you lay?”
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