Just a day after going 18 for 18 Senior OPEN cuts, Tom Watson announced that this will be his remaining Senior OPEN.
Tom said he just wasn't lengthy sufficient to compete anymore so there has been no cause to preserve trying. I wager I can see that. If you're used to prevailing and now you are simply looking to make the cut, that is a difficult tablet to swallow.
I suspect Mark Rolfing may have been closer to the mark though. He noted that Tom is the primary caregiver for his wife Hilary, who is fighting pancreatic cancer. The Kansas City Star posted an article last year about the battle (it says that it was updated in April) but I haven't found any recent news about how she's doing.
Still, you can not help however assume he virtually would not need to travel a lot now, that he'd as an alternative be home with Hilary. Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality price of any cancer, and I doubt preventing to make cuts can compete with spending each viable second together with her that he can. It's not handiest comprehensible, it's what you would assume from humans in love.
And on the grounds that he stated he in all likelihood may not play extra than a handful of different activities going ahead... Nicely, it simply makes feel.
But we are all going to miss seeing Tom out on the hyperlinks. Hopefully he and Hilary gets to spend even greater desirable times together now.
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