Grayson Murray, the skilled golfer who received two PGA Tour titles and was outspoken about his battles with despair and alcohol, died on Saturday. He was 30.
His loss of life was confirmed in a assertion by the PGA Tour, which didn’t give a trigger.
“The PGA Tour is a household, and once you lose a member of your loved ones, you might be by no means the identical,” the tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, stated within the assertion.
After a profitable 40-foot putt to win the Sony Open in Hawaii in January, Mr. Murray rose to forty sixth within the Official World Golf Rating, a profession excessive. The occasion marked the peak of a comeback run after a number of unstable years as Mr. Murray struggled along with his psychological well being.
In a information convention after profitable the Sony Open, Mr. Murray stated that for a time he would drink throughout event weeks.
“Smartest thing and worst factor that ever occurred to me was profitable my rookie yr, but in addition feeling like I used to be invincible,” he stated. “I’m a special man now, and I might not be on this place proper now, at the moment, if I didn’t put that drink down eight months in the past.”
He added that he had attended rehabilitation for a month, and stated, “I hope I can encourage lots of people going ahead which have their very own points.”
Mr. Murray had failed to achieve P.G.A. standing for a number of months final yr after a sequence of off-course occasions mirrored a decline in his play.
A 2021 alcohol-related incident at a resort bar in Hawaii led to his suspension from the P.G.A. Afterward, he posted to social media.
“Why was I drunk?” he wrote, including that he was as an “alcoholic that hates all the things to do with the PGA Tour life and that’s my scapegoat.”
The golfer Phil Mickelson, who has struggled with a playing dependancy, responded on the time on social media, saying “If I may help in any means I’d be completely happy to.”
This yr, Mr. Murray performed nicely sufficient to qualify for the Masters Event and PGA Championship. On Friday, he withdrew from the second spherical of the Charles Schwab Problem in Fort Value, Texas, citing an sickness.
Grayson Murray was born on Oct. 1, 1993, in Raleigh, N.C., in accordance with an ESPN biography. A listing of survivors was not instantly out there.
He attended Wake Forest, East Carolina and Arizona State Universities, and at 16 grew to become the second-youngest participant to enter the Korn Ferry Tour, in accordance with the P.G.A.
He continued to achieve prominence, enjoying within the U.S. Open on the age of 19 and clinching a win on the 2017 Barbasol Championship, sinking a 5-foot putt for a one-stroke victory.
After dropping his PGA Tour card for the 2023 season, and following an offended outburst directed at Mr. Monahan, he appeared to have discovered his swing once more. He received two Korn Ferry Tour tournaments final yr, regaining his P.G.A. eligibility, and completed within the prime 10 at two occasions.
