I don't mean to make light of death here because this is not a story of humor. But you get a sense of just how important the Masters is when the following happens.
Marc Leishman's wife Audrey, as you know, is recovering after being given a 5 percent chance to live just a few weeks ago.
Brian Wacker of PGATour.com wrote a great piece on it recently. In it, Marc Leishman talked about the first few things his wife told him after she woke up from an induced coma.
“When Audrey first woke up the first thing she said was ‘I love you’ and then said something like ‘I’m sorry about the Masters.’ She got pretty upset. I told her not to worry about it, it’s just golf. She and the boys are more important than golf. It’s a long road ahead but having her still here will make this week a pretty enjoyable week, whether I play well or not.”
You have to admit, that's pretty great. She had just come out of a nearly 100-hour coma and one of her first two sentences is about Augusta?!
Thankfully, Audrey has jumped on that road to recovery. Hopefully, she'll be all the way back soon enough.
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