The Parents of the Late Golfist Grayson Murray Reflected on the enduring legacy of his son and the last days of his life.
Eric and Terry Murray talked Today about Grayson’s death, who Died by suicide at the age of 30 In May 2024.
“It’s a nightmare and doesn’t stop,” said Eric Todays Carson Daly In a segment that was issued on Monday, February 24.
Grayson, a twice winner at the PGA Tour who had been a candidate on his mental health trip, was found dead in his Gardens in Palm Beach, Florida, at home the day after retiring from a tournament. Texas citing diseases.
The late Grayson Murray had been honest about his mental health struggles over the years, and the golfist hoped that his candor could inspire others to get help. By 2021, Murray was involved in an alcohol -related incident in Hawaii, which resulted in his suspension of the PGA Tour. “Why was I drunk?” Wrote via (…)
“He tried to improve,” said Eric. “He did everything he could.”
Grayson entered the rehabilitation of alcoholism in 2021 and also sought treatment for social anxiety and depression, but his mother explained how his lifestyle did not facilitate his son.
“I would go to drink and play,” said Terry. “It was difficult for him to the road.”
According to Golf DigestGrayson admitted to lose more than $ 400,000 in 2017.
When things became too difficult, Terry said that the family home became a shrine for Grayson.
“You would put a happy face on the road,” he explained. “Our house became a safe refuge. If he were depressed, he would go to his room and not go out for two or three days. “”
Eric defined these periods of time for his son as “deep tunnels or dark holes” while remembering one of Grayson’s last trips to the house.
“We sat on the couch and we both sat down and wept,” he said. “He had it as a baby. He was talking about how he was physically and emotionally continuing to do what he does.”
Seeing the toll that supposed him, Eric even tried to get Grayson to give up golf to focus on himself.
Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images One of Grayson Murray’s colleagues in the world of professional sports shared a hopeful exchange that he had with the last golfer weeks before his death. On a Monday, June 3, the celebration of the life ceremony for Murray, who died by suicide on May 25, spoke of the defender of Carolina Hurricanes Jaccob Slavin (…)
“I actually asked him to do it,” he said. “But Grayson loved golf. There is no place on Earth that was happier than on the golf course. But at the same time, it was very difficult. “
The month before his death, Grayson achieved a lifetime goal competing in his first Masters Tournament. It is a memory that has forever been consecrated in the house of the Murray family.
“We have a photo of him to the teachers uploaded above the couch,” Terry said. “I look there every day.”
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