Scottie Scheffler Breaks Down Discussing Late Golfer Grayson Murray

Scottie Scheffler paid an emotional tribute to his good friend and fellow golfer Grayson Murray, who took his personal life final month. 

Scheffler, 27, the No. 1 golfer on the earth, and dozens of PGA Tour friends gathered Tuesday, June 4 at Muirfield Village Golf Membership in Dublin, Ohio to eulogize the late Murray. 

“We’re not designed to reside this life on our personal,” Scheffler instructed the gathering, in response to Sports Illustrated. “All of us carry much more baggage than we let on — myself particularly.”

Murray — who was 30 years previous when he was discovered useless in his Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida residence on Could 25 — had been very candid about his struggles with psychological well being and alcoholism all through his enjoying profession.

“I feel all of us want we may have achieved extra for him, want we may have achieved issues otherwise,” Scheffler continued. “You understand, your thoughts simply type of goes to what you can have achieved to forestall this from taking place.”

Scheffler defined that Murray had been actively making an attempt to get his fiancée Christiana Ritchie extra concerned with the opposite wives and companions on Tour — together with Scheffler’s spouse Meredith Scudder — on the time of his demise. 

“He was making an attempt to actually be the most effective model of himself, and to be an amazing husband,” Scheffler mentioned. “He was trying ahead to sooner or later changing into a dad, and it pains me that he’s not with us.”

In line with The Guardian, Scheffler additionally instructed a narrative of enjoying a nine-hole apply spherical with Murray one 12 months earlier than The Gamers Championship. 

“The look on his face once I gave him $100 on the ninth inexperienced is one thing I’ll keep in mind for a very long time since you couldn’t wipe that smile off his face,” Scheffler reportedly mentioned. “No doubt, he liked being out right here contained in the ropes.”

When he concluded his remarks, The Guardian reported Scheffler was “weeping” and he “buried his head in his spouse’s shoulder.”

No members of Murray’s household, together with Ritchie, have been current on the gathering, however the late golfer’s family members did set up a celebration of life for him earlier this week. 

In the course of the emotional occasion on Monday, June 3, Murray was honored with speeches from his longtime coach Ted Kiegiel, Carolina Hurricanes star Jaccob Slavin and a efficiency by nation singer Jake Owen. 

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