Gary Woodland recounts his drama: “I feared I would die.”

Gary Woodland recounts his drama

At last Gary Woodland can smile and can go back to doing what he does best: playing golf: he è put a really bad period behind him, as he explained. "I lived through four and a half nightmarish months with the fear, every day, of being close to death" in fact, he recounted.

The US champion è had surgery to remove a benign brain tumor: "The lesion was in the part that controls fear and anxiety. The drugs I was forced to take worked for seizures, but caused horrible side effects including short-term memory loss".

"I want to show my children that in life you can overcome even such difficult times" added the winner of the 2019 US Open, who è referred himself to a neurologist after the first worrisome symptoms, such as loss of appetite, sleep and energy and hand tremor.

Woodland, a native of Topeka, Kansas, will be 40 years old next May 21.