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[Game 7 @game7__]

Gary Woodland is the anti-Tiger Woods in every possible way.

Allow me to explain why.

Gary Woodland just won the Houston Open by five shots.

Two and a half years ago, doctors cut a baseball-sized hole in his skull to remove a brain lesion.

He spent two nights in the ICU.

There was a real chance he would wake up paralyzed.

This is the best comeback story in golf right now and it's not even close.

The full story behind today is insane.

In 2019, Gary Woodland won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.

He finished 13-under and beat Brooks Koepka by three strokes.

At that point, Woodland had four PGA Tour wins including a major, and was ranked 12th in the world.

Then everything slowly fell apart.

After the 2023 Masters, Woodland became consumed by fear.

Not regular nerves.

Actual, debilitating terror.

He was afraid he was going to die.

Afraid something was going to happen to his kids.

Afraid of falling to his death in his sleep.

At the Memorial Tournament in June 2023, he woke up in his hotel room and clung to the mattress for an hour.

He was convinced that if he let go, he would fall.

His hands were trembling.

He had no appetite.

Spasms would jolt him awake at night.

He was losing focus over putts.

Forgetting what club he was holding mid-swing.

An MRI finally revealed the cause.

A lesion was growing on his brain.

It was pressing directly on the part of his brain that controls fear and anxiety.

Think about that.

The thing responsible for every irrational terror he was experiencing had a physical, medical explanation.

His brain was literally being pressed into a constant state of fear.

In September 2023, Woodland had a craniotomy.

Surgeons removed as much of the lesion as they could, roughly half, because it was pressed against the optic tract of his left eye.

They cut off blood supply to the rest to try to stop it from growing.

He walked out of the hospital two days later.

Started putting again two days after that.

He came back to the PGA Tour in January 2024 at the Sony Open.

But he was nowhere near the same player.

In 26 starts during 2024, he had three top-25 finishes.

His best was a tie for ninth at the Shriners Children's Open.

For a former U.S. Open champion, those are survival numbers.

And nobody knew the full extent of what he was dealing with.

Because on top of the brain surgery and the recovery, Woodland had been diagnosed with PTSD.

He kept it hidden for over a year.

He described being hypervigilant on the course.

A walking scorer once got too close from behind and startled him so badly that his vision went blurry and he forgot where he was.

He would go into bathrooms between holes and cry.

He would break down in the scoring trailer after rounds.

He would sprint to his car in the parking lot just to hide it from everyone.

He said he felt like he was living a lie.

Spending so much energy pretending to be okay that he had nothing left for the actual golf.

On March 9, three weeks before this Houston Open, Woodland finally told the truth publicly.

He sat down with Golf Channel's Rex Hoggard and revealed everything.

The PTSD.

The crying.

The fear.

All of it.

He said after that interview it felt like a thousand pounds had been lifted off his back.

Then he showed up at Memorial Park.

He opened with a 64.

Then a 63.

Then a 65.

Then a 67 on Sunday to close it out.

259 total.

A tournament record.

21-under par.

Five strokes clear of Nicolai Højgaard.

Wire to wire.

Led every single round.

His first win since the 2019 U.S. Open.

Nearly seven years between victories.

Brain surgery, PTSD, two years of hiding in bathrooms between holes, and a thousand pounds of weight he was carrying that nobody could see.

This is a guy who was a basketball player first.

He grew up in Topeka, Kansas, won state basketball titles at Shawnee Heights High School, and played a year of college basketball at Washburn before he realized golf was his future.

He won the Courage Award from the PGA Tour in 2025.

The seventh player to ever receive it.

And now, at 41 years old, with titanium plates holding his skull together, he walked into Memorial Park three weeks after telling the world the truth about what he had been going through and played the best golf of the entire field for four straight days.

The full breakdown of Woodland's career, the surgery, the PTSD, and how he got to this point is here:

https://t.co/5ngVyMCs78

There is a reason this one hits different.

Comeback stories in sports usually involve torn ACLs or shoulder surgeries.

Things you can see.

Things that heal on a timeline.

Woodland's comeback was from something that rewired his brain.

Something that turned his own mind against him.

And the hardest part of his recovery wasn't physical.

It was admitting to the people around him that he wasn't okay.

Three weeks ago he said the words out loud.

Today he won a golf tournament by five shots.

[Matt Couture @MattCouture5]

Breaking: thousands march in the street to protest a democratically elected president while they all voted for a candidate not democratically elected

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

This is one of the most perfect things the internet has ever created.

[🧀#NeverSerious @B0NYPH0NY]

Bears fans explaining why Jordan Love throwing 6 INTs over an entire season is bad but Caleb “iceman” Williams having 5 INTs in just 2 playoff games is completely ok

[alec @alecTrading]

He was using drugs between holes at Augusta National. Contemplating suicide for two decades. Couldn't walk into rehab without help. Today he just beat two of the best golfers alive. One of, if not the greatest sports comeback stories of all time:

Anthony Kim. Father. Husband. Three-time PGA Tour winner before age 25 - alongside only Tiger, Phil, Sergio, and Adam Scott.

Then his Achilles ruptured in 2012. He vanished, for twelve years.

He was battling drug and alcohol addiction daily. Using during majors. Making bathroom stops between holes just to get through the round. Contemplating ending his life for almost two decades while the world thought he was living the dream.

His body eventually shut down. He could barely walk into rehab. His wife Emily and daughter Bella pulled him back.

He got a second chance with LIV Golf in 2024. Finished dead last. Didn't earn a single point in two full seasons. Got relegated from the league in August.

Most people would've quit. He showed up every single day and worked to get 1% better after being cut from the league.

He earned his spot back through a qualifying tournament on pure merit.

Today, in the final round at LIV Adelaide, playing alongside Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm - two of the biggest names in golf - he came back from a 5-shot starting deficit and has just shot nine under to win the golf tournamnet.

This man was ready to leave this earth. Now he just did the unthinkable. If that doesn't prove you can come back from anything, nothing will.

It's never too late.

@livgolf_league @AnthonyKim_Golf
#LIVGolfAdelaide

[HoldenCantor @HoldenCantor]

Matthew Stafford threw for 8 touchdowns 0 interceptions and 961 yards against this Seahawks defense. Shoutout to the MVP voters that voted Stafford

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

What’s amazing is that we had Olympics under the Obama administration when he was doing mass deportations and absolutely none of these left wing journalists would have ever dreamed of asking US athletes how they felt representing their country then

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

So by that logic, as a Brit, I can travel to the US tomorrow for a “holiday” but then stay there indefinitely and do whatever I want because “nobody is illegal on stolen land”, right?

I should be able to vote in elections despite not being an American citizen because “no vote is illegal on stolen land”, right?

I should be able to “steal” someone’s car and claim it as my own because there’s “no such thing as theft on stolen land”, right?

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Wait, didn’t you & Biden put a $25m bounty on Maduro right before leaving office? (1/10/2025)

Didn’t you try to look strong after deaths from overdose hit record breaking numbers on your watch?

The only difference is he got the job done.

You couldn’t even protect the border.

[Joey Jones @Johnny_Joey]

We covered this on Fox. Farve received <$1M in speaking fees and southern Mississippi, where his daughter played volleyball, received $5M for their volleyball stadium. He was called to testify in Congress on this… by Republicans. He was required to pay back the money he received for speaking fees plus $700K in interest to the state.

I think I speak for most republicans and democrats when I say an equal amount of transparency and repatriation with interest would go a really long way in the multibillion dollar fraud allegations in Minnesota.

[Zach Kruse @zachkruse2]

The third string quarterback throws to the converted cornerback who drops it for an interception

[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

The Packers have 3 rushing yards with their running backs. They’ve allowed 27 points. And Malik Willis is single handedly keeping them in this game. One of the more absurd games I’ve ever seen.

[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

Arguably the most devastating day of Packers football since the 2014 NFC Championship game. A disaster of a day. No way around it.

[Andy Herman @AndyHermanNFL]

Stop. We’re already dead.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just showed the kind of man he is

"Every time I solve a war, they say, 'If you solve the next one, you're gonna get [the Nobel]!' I don't CARE about all that stuff. I just care about saving LIVES."

"I love solving wars. You know why? I like stopping people from being killed." 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Optimistic Jets @OptimisticJets]

The signs of incompetence were there from Aaron Glenn early in the offseason. Deciding you don’t want to keep Rodgers is one thing. Treating one of the greatest QB’s ever, who poured his heart into the team for 2 seasons the way Glenn did is embarrassing

[Grant Bilse @WiscoGrant]

the Packers tried to help you out folks

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

I’d like to ask my non-conservative followers to pay attention here for a moment. I don’t need a response or a rebuttal or a ‘whatabout.’ Just read on and consider what I’m saying. Please.

We are only a few weeks removed from a leading conservative figure being shot in the throat and killed by a leftist, for and during his speech, at a public speaking event. Stunning, jarring numbers of leftist Americans justified or celebrated this assassination, aligning with multiple public polls showing that a sizable minority of leftists in this country think political violence can be acceptable.

Today — just today — many conservatives are thinking about:

(1) a major leftist statewide candidate being exposed for sending texts to a political opponent (R) explicitly hoping for the death of another conservative political opponent…along with the deaths of that opponents’ young children. He WROTE DOWN that the pain of those deaths might promote his own agenda, which would be worth it, in his estimation. This candidate is now condemning his current conservative opponent for noticing this information.

And also (2) a development in the case of a leftist would-be assassin of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, who traveled across the country, heavily armed, with the stated intent of murdering up to three right-leaning Justices because he was angry about their abortion jurisprudence. The leftist judge in the case rejected prosecutors’ request for a multi-decade sentence, giving the defense team the very lenient sentence they’d sought. The leftist judge, in her reasoning, cited the criminal’s trans identity as a factor & expressed happiness that the assassination plot and its aftermath helped with the criminal’s family therapy around the trans issue.

And also (3) yet another violent leftist attack — this time an apparent ambush — against federal immigration officers. This did not take place in Dallas, where a leftist sniper very recently went on a deadly spree while trying to murder as many ICE officers as possible. This one happened in Illinois, where the leftist governor just called these officers “jack booted thugs.” Violent attacks on these federal agents (thugs, fascists, gestapo, per various leading leftist politicians) are up approximately *one thousand percent,* per DHS.

And also (4) a prominent university being pressured into reversing its attempt to shut down a conservative event commemorating the second anniversary of the Oct 7 terrorist massacre of Jews — because, the school said, they were worried about the security situation around the event. They were referring, of course, to the violent Islamist-Leftist coalition pro-Hamas mob, which has engaged in harassment, threats, violence and murder ever since that mass slaughter.

AND YET, we see many of our leftist friends tweeting and posting about how *their opponents* are the “dangerous” and “authoritarian” “fascists.”

I ask you to try to contemplate, even for a quiet moment or two, how this might strike many of us.

That’s all for now. Thank you.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

How is this real life

Senator John Kennedy exposes all the things Democrats are demanding we put back in the budget to fund before opening up the government, “Those are the demands”

- $4.2 million for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda
- $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti
- $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in Rwanda
- $6 million dollars for media organizations for the Palestinians
- $833,000 for transgender people in Nepal
- $300,000 for a pride parade in Lesotho
- $882,000 for social media and mentorship in Serbia
- $3 million for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia

“We took out, and here's what they want us to put back in — We took that out. The congresswoman says, we're going to shut down government until you put that back in.”

“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez in the socialist wing, the loon wing of the Democratic Party says, we're going to shut down government until you put it back in.”

Senator John Kennedy repeats Democrats are demanding all three thing get put back in to be funded