PGA Tour, players hold celebration of life for Grayson Murray

, the PGA Tour winner who had turned the corner from struggles with alcoholism and depression only to take his life a day after withdrawing from a tournament.

Next to the podium was Murray's golf bag, along with a large framed photograph of his reaction to making a 40-foot birdie in a playoff to win the Sony Open in January.on May 25, one day after he walked off the course at Colonial with two holes remaining in the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge., who came to know Murray better in the early part of the year, as Murray was trying to get his fiancée more involved with some of the players' wives.

Murray's death was a shock to players, caddies and everyone involved in the tour. He was a prodigious talent as a junior, won the Barbasol Championship in Kentucky as a rookie and struggled with alcoholism and tour discipline and anxiety. He spoke at the Sony Open about feeling like a failure for not living up to expectations., who first met an 8-year-old Murray in their home state of North Carolina, is not at the Memorial this year.

"We had a player meeting in Canada that all of you know was intense and heated. Grayson and others were extremely vocal about their displeasure about my decision to keep the membership in the heart. The criticism, it was 100% warranted," Monahan said.

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