Gary Woodland won the Texas Children’s Houston Open on Sunday. He did so by five strikes. It was one of the most dominant four-day stretches of golf that the PGA Tour has seen this season.
Somehow though, none of the golf mattered. Don’t get me wrong. Gary Woodland is a professional golfer, and he is a major champion (2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach). What happened at Memorial Park though was so much bigger than golf, bigger than sport, and was more about life.
Gary Woodland exemplifies perseverance
For those unaware, Gary Woodland had brain surgery to remove a tumor back in September of 2023. This is obviously a difficult enough thing
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