Golfer Grayson Murray died of suicide, family confirms

Grayson Murray’s household has confirmed the qualified golfer died by suicide, following news of his death shocked the sports activities community this weekend.

The two-time PGA Tour winner died Saturday, the working day right after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Obstacle in Fort Worth, Texas. He was 30 a long time aged.

His mom and dad, Eric and Terry Murray, shared a assertion Sunday expressing that “life was not constantly quick for Grayson, and even though he took his own daily life, we know he rests peacefully now.”

“We have used the very last 24 several hours making an attempt to arrive to conditions with the reality that our son is long gone,” they wrote. “It’s surreal that we not only have to confess it to ourselves, but that we also have to acknowledge it to the planet. It is a nightmare.”

Murray, who obtained entire standing on the PGA Tour in 2017, won the Barbasol Championship that yr at the age of 23.

In 2023, he scored two wins on the Korn Ferry Tour, at the AdventHealth Championship in Kansas Town and the Simmons Bank Open outside the house of Nashville, Tennessee.

Murray went on to earn the Sony Open in Hawaii earlier this year — hitting wedge to 3 feet for birdie on the last gap to get into a playoff and profitable it with a 40-foot putt.

Murray has been open about owning struggled with alcoholism and psychological wellbeing in the past. At a information conference after profitable the Sony Open up in January, Murray explained to reporters he utilized to drink in the course of match months and that alcoholic beverages was his “outlet.”

“That was around seven a long time in the past, and I’m a various guy now,” he said. “And I would not be in this posture ideal now nowadays if I didn’t set that drink down 8 months back.”

Murray also shared that he struggled with stress and melancholy, which he stated “stemmed a large amount from alcohol use,” and that he experienced from self-esteem troubles. But his lifetime improved, he said, when he stopped “trying to fight it alone” and determined to check with for enable.

“There were being days wherever I did not want to get out of bed. I just imagined I was a failure. I normally appeared at myself as a failure. I assumed I experienced a ton of expertise that was just a waste of talent,” Murray said. “And it was a undesirable put but like I claimed, you have to have braveness. You have to have the willingness to preserve heading. And lo and behold, that is what I did.”

In their statement his mom and dad wrote, “We have so numerous questions that have no answers. But one. Was Grayson cherished? The respond to is indeed. By us, his brother Cameron, his sister Erica, all of his prolonged spouse and children, by his friends, by his fellow gamers and — it appears to be — by numerous of you who are examining this. He was loved and he will be missed.”

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan also said in a statement Saturday that he was “devastated” to understand of Murray’s loss of life that morning.

“The PGA TOUR is a relatives, and when you get rid of a member of your spouse and children, you are never ever the similar,” he reported. “We mourn Grayson and pray for comfort for his liked ones.”

Grief counselors will be offered at this week’s PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour occasions, in accordance to the information release.

If you or anyone you know is in crisis, get in touch with 988 to get to the Suicide and Disaster Lifeline. You can also get in touch with the community, beforehand regarded as the National Suicide Avoidance Lifeline, at 800-273-8255, text Residence to 741741 or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/means for extra means.