Jarrod Lyle Overcomes “Shitty Situation” To Play Aussie Masters

It’s absolutely fantastic to have see Jarrod Lyle tee it up at the Australian Masters at Royal Melbourne this week. After two enforced breaks to battle cancer Lyle plays thanks an unusual donor as Lawrence Money explains.
jarrod lyle"I still stand up to pee," says pro golfer Jarrod Lyle. "And they haven't made any special tees for me at the golf course." It's his private joke. Fact is, Lyle resumes his cancer-stricken golfing career in the Australian Masters at Royal Melbourne this week thanks in part to an umbilical-cord blood transplant from a young girl in Germany. "There were no adult donors on the worldwide registry," he explains. "So I try to make a bit of humour out of a shitty situation, mate." Lyle's easygoing country-boy manner has been sorely tested in the past 20 months.
A victim of leukaemia at 16, when he spent nine months in bed, this 32-year-old Shepparton-born golfer was attacked again by the disease in February last year and his promising career - he has a card on the US PGA tour - came to a standstill. He is still gobsmacked by the support he got from his fellow pros. At the instigation of friend Robert Allenby in Florida, many wore "Leuk the Duck" badges (a mascot for kids with cancer) on their caps to give him a lift. "I was in hospital when Robert texted me to say he had handed out these badges at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and I watched on my iPad,'' Lyle says.
''Everyone who came through, blokes I have looked up to for a long time, had the badges. I cried a couple of times. Ernie Els had one, so did Tiger Woods and he actually won that week."
As well as the blood transplant, Lyle had three rounds of chemotherapy and a day of radiation. When he lost his hair his wife, Briony, shaved off her long hair in support.


It doesn’t matter to Lyle how he does this week; you sense that even being in the field is a victory.
He has won twice on the secondary tour in the US and has placed fourth on the Australian circuit. To keep his PGA card he needs to earn another $290,000 in the next 20 events. He has no high expectations for the Australian Masters. "I want to do as well as I can but if I miss the cut by 20 shots, I don't care, it's just me getting out there again and showing I can do this."


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