Gary Woodland Shares the Scary Details of Recent Medical Absence

Gary Woodland has shared his medical trauma from last year, and it was a lot worse than we all expected.

The 2019 US Open winner gathered a following through the last decade, affectionately named ‘G-Dub’ and hitting mind-blowing stingers with his trusty 2 iron. His win at Pebble Beach cemented him in that upper level of golfers who have raised the US Open trophy.

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In 2023, Woodland was having trouble sleeping. This led to seizures, shaking, anti-anxiety medication, and inability to concentrate, which all greatly inhibited his day-to-day life.

The diagnosis after MRI’s was a lesion on his brain, pressing down on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety. He said he spent over four months thinking he was going to die, due to the position of the lesion on his brain.

What was strange was Gary’s swing was still pretty good, quoting that:

‘My game was good, I was getting into positions I’d been trying to get into for a while, but it was hard ‘cause we didn’t tell anyone’.

After some time, the symptoms got worse. Woodland continued:

‘I’d be standing over a club and forget what club I was hitting, I’d be lining up putts and think ‘this is taking too long, I’m just gonna hit it’.

His surgeon in Miami decided the only option was to go in, and thankfully the surgery was a success, removing almost 100% of a growing – yet benign – lesion, and cutting the blood circulation off to whatever is left in there.

The scary details of the story Woodland shared was eye-opening fans, many of which had no idea the severity of what he went through.  Now Woodland has returned to the PGA Tour after getting the all-clear last week to get to Hawaii.

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It’s Impossible not to root for the guy after what he has been through, and it is nice to see a positive – albeit scary – story on the timeline.

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