Josh Booth

SUFC sufferer 🔴⚪️⚔️
Racing supporter 🏁🏇💨
0-60 rated golfer 🏌🏼‍♂️

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

I bloody love this club ❤️ #sufc 🔴⚪️⚔️

[Sheffield United @SheffieldUnited]

UNREAL 😍

#SUFC 🔴

[Claire Hughes @clairehughesBA]

This what we’re up against:

AI videos being made in Sri Lanka, shared here in Britain to stoke fear and division.

The next time someone tells you something MUST be true because they’ve seen it on Facebook…send them this video.

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

🐐

[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

40 - @billysharp10 has now scored an English Football League hat-trick in his teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. Generational.

[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.

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

On this day in 2022 🗓️

George Baldock did this for Sheffield United…

What a player 🙏👏

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

Buzzing for the new badge to be announced

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Sheffield Wednesday administrators have received an extraordinary enquiry from the owners of Sheffield United, asking about a possible deal to merge the rival clubs.

It has been made clear that neither the EFL nor the new Football Regulator would allow such a merger to happen.

[Brendan Porath @BrendanPorath]

European chant on first tee ends with…“Cantlay’s got his hat on hip hip hip hooray, Cantlay’s got his hat on so he must be getting paid.”

So we’re running that one back!

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

The UEFA Champions League final will kick off at 18:00CET as of the 2025/26 season.

The decision is designed to enhance the matchday experience and benefit fans, teams and host cities.

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

Bottle job Bradley

[Ryder Cup USA @RyderCupUSA]

Bradley & The Boys Are Ready for Bethpage Black 🏆🇺🇸

#GoUSA

[DP World Tour @DPWorldTour]

🚨 HOLE-IN-ONE 🚨

Ben Schmidt aces the 14th, prompting a £50,000 donation from Betfred to Official Charity Partner Guide Dogs.

#BetfredBritishMasters

[Golf Last Man Standing @GolfLMS]

It’s time for the PGA Championship Last Man Standing!

Want to win BIG money? 🤑

Pick 3 golfers with combined odds of 150/1+ and be in with the chance of winning £11,000+!

💷Entry Fee - £10

📜Enter ➡️ https://t.co/ewO6gpuPhb

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

@1JonDavies1988 Apparently no matter how bad the foul is, if you kick a leg out it’s not a red 🥴 come off it

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

@grooveitbrush Shame the magnet is toss. Two come off, won’t be buying a third.

[Gabriel McKeown @gabemckeownuk]

The sharp rise in house prices has overwhelmingly benefited a small subset of the population, and politicians must address these housing needs to ensure that having a roof over your head becomes a given, and not a gamble. Read my latest article now: https://t.co/rC6etY7Pb0

[Betfred @Betfred]

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🎟 Two tickets for all FIVE Betfred Classics
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Just reply with who you would take for your chance to win the lot!

T&Cs apply

[Golf Last Man Standing @GolfLMS]

It’s time for our biggest Last Man Standing of the year, The Masters is here!

Want to win BIG money? 🤑

Pick 3 golfers with combined odds of 150/1+ and be in with the chance of winning £12,500+!

💷Entry Fee - £10

📝Enter ➡️ https://t.co/vv01yDYPV6

[Football Heaven @footballheaven]

90' GOAL: Jayson Molumby

West Brom 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday

#SWFC | @BBCSheffield

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

As a result, Everton have been docked 6pts.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: No Premier League clubs have been charged with Profit and Sustainability ruling breaches 🚨

Arbitration is ongoing to determine whether the league had jurisdiction over Leicester City relating to the 2022/23 season.

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

@S_HennesseyGD @SixtyTwoMike my new favourite hole in golf

[Josh Booth @JoshLBooth]

@sid_lambert UK football has to have the dullest commentators in the world. Some of the best goals ever scored and they manage to sap everything.