The mother of late golfer Grayson Murray, who died by suicide in May 2024 at the age of 30, found a hopeful note her son had written in his journal before his death.
According to Terry Murray, in July 2021, Grayson laid out a proposal for the Grayson Murray Foundation, which would aim to help others struggling with alcohol abuse, anxiety and depression.
“I found all those notes,” Grayson’s mother said Monday, February 24 on the Today show. “He actually wrote a plan.”
The note, handwritten in bullet point form, was shown during the segment and included ideas like “Establish my story and mission and journey,” “Build awareness by creating a website” and “Reach out to players.”
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The mission statement for Grayson’s foundation read: “Help the ones that want to be helped but might not have the money they need financially.”
Grayson was a beloved member of the PGA Tour, where he had two tournament victories under his belt. After his death, his parents were flooded by supportive letters from many of his friends and peers.
“Some of the comments were, ‘Grayson was fiercely loyal, yet tremendously kind,” Terry said. “And then from some of the players, ‘He did some things for me that most other golfers on the Tour would not even consider.”
Terry revealed that Grayson even “bought a car” for a young pediatric cancer patient and his family who were struggling.
“He used to tell me, ‘If I can just help one person, it was worth it,’” Grayson’s father, Eric, recalled.
Grayson was found dead in his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida home in May 2024, the day after withdrawing from a tournament in Texas citing illness.
In the time leading up to his death, Grayson’s parents remembered how the family home became a place for him to get away from his “tough” life on the PGA Tour.
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“He would put on a happy face out on the road,” Terry explained. “Our house became a safe haven. If he was depressed, he would go in his room and he wouldn’t come out for two or three days.”
On one of Grayson’s final trips home, Eric recalled, “We sat on the sofa and we both sat there and cried.”
“I was holding him like a baby,” he added. “He was talking about how hard it was physically and emotionally to keep doing what he’s doing.”
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