Parents of the late Golfer Grayson Murray thought about the lasting legacy of their son and the last days of his life.
Eric and Terry Murray talked with Today about the death of Grayon, which died with suicide at the age of 30 In May 2024.
“It’s a nightmare, and it doesn’t stop,” Eric said Todaywith Carson Daly In the segment aired on Monday, February 24th.
Grayson, a double winner on the PGA tour who was honest because of his mental health journey, was found dead in his Palm Beach gardens in Florida, home the day after withdrawing from the Tournament in Texas, citing the disease.
The late Grayson Murray was honest about his mental health fights over the years, and Golfer hoped that his honesty could encourage others to help. 2021. Murray was involved in the incident associated with alcohol on Hawaii, which led to his suspension from the PGA tour. “Why was I drunk?” Wrote the way (…)
“He tried to get better,” Eric said. “He did everything he could.”
Grayson entered rehabilitation due to alcoholism in 2021, and also sought treatment for social anxiety and depression, but his mother explained that his lifestyle did not facilitate things on her son.
“He would go to drink and gamble,” Terry said. “That was hard for him along the way.”
According to Golf DigestGrayon admitted that in 2017 he lost more than $ 400,000 from gambling.
When things became overly difficult, Terry said the family home became a sanctuary for Grayon.
“He would put a happy face on the road,” she explained. “Our house has become a safe haven. If he had been depressed, he would go to his room and not go out for two or three days.”
Eric defined these time periods for his son as “deep tunnels or dark holes,” recalling one of Gayson’s last trips to the house.
“We sat down on the sofa and we both sat there and cried,” he said. “I held him as a child. He spoke about how difficult it was physically and emotionally to continue to do what he was doing.”
Seeing the toll was taking it, Eric even tried to give Grayson to give up Golf to focus on himself.
Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images one of Grayon Murray’s peers from the world of professional sport shared the hope of an exchange he had with the late Golfer weeks before his death. On Monday, June 3, Ceremony of Life Ceremony for Murray – who died with suicide on May 25 – Carolina Hurricist Jaccob Slavin spoke about (…)
“I actually asked him to do it,” he said. “But Grayson loved golf. There’s no place on the ground that he was happier than on golf course. But at the same time it was very difficult.”
A month before his death, Grayon scored a lifelong goal by competing in his first Masters tournament. It is a memory that is forever closed in Murray’s family home.
“We have a picture of him on a master who hangs above the sofa,” Terry said. “I look there every day.”
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