PGA golfer Harrison Endycott opens up on dark times and alcohol battles
The Korn Ferry Tour is golf's Bermuda triangle, a cosmopolitan melting pot of young up-and-comers trying to make it to the big leagues, and grizzled veterans trying to get back there. Most are stuck for years and then slowly fade away into obscurity.
But it also captured a beautiful moment when Endycott finally locked up his PGA Tour status, with his dad Brian flying over from Australia to be there.
They hugged and cried at what he'd achieved, but mostly because Endycott's mother, Dianne, wasn't there. She died from ovarian cancer when Harrison was just 15, largely keeping the details of her prognosis from the teenager.
Endycott took her death hard. He was angry, rebellious, skipped school, the lot.
'The cards I got dealt with growing up to this point, for a long time I felt like my life was like sitting at a blackjack table and I kept getting dealt 20 … and the dealer keeps getting 21 every single time,' he says.
'I had a lot of trauma as a kid. I had a lot of things that happened in my life that I never dealt with. I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world. I needed help with that.' FINDING HELP AND A NEW PATH
Endycott is speaking about his own mental health battle, partly, because he was afraid of his family receiving a phone call like the one Grayson Murray's parents had to receive in early 2024.
Endycott, 28, confronted his own condition at Kentucky just two months after Murray took his life.
The American had already won a PGA Tour event in early 2024 and was ranked inside the world's top 60. He'd been open with his own mental health battle.
A week before he died, Endycott saw Murray on the putting green during practice for a PGA Tour stop.
'You wouldn't have had a clue,' he says. Murray was found dead a day after withdrawing from a PGA Tour event in Texas.
'I was definitely in a place where that could have been me,' Endycott says.
'I was close to going down (a path) where my family received calls his family had to receive.'
After consulting the PGA Tour's player relations team, Endycott was immediately booked in to see a therapist. He didn't touch a golf club for almost four months, purely working on his mental health.
His first challenge was to get sober. He stayed that way well until this year, and only occasionally has a limited amount of alcohol now.
He found other pursuits to rewire his mind, mostly entailing health and fitness, where he now works out up to six times a week in the gym. He's the fittest he's ever been, enough for him to quietly make a return to professional golf last month on the Korn Ferry Tour.
He made his first PGA Tour start in almost a year at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, won by world No.1 Scheffler, and will continue to be given starts under a medical exemption. Endycott didn't survive the cut in Texas, but that didn't mean he grabbed the nearest bottle either.
'A missed cut last year resulted in me sitting at a bar getting s---faced, feeling good about myself that way,' Endycott says. 'But I've found the love of the game again. Results are part of the journey. I'm playing golf now because I love golf.
'Every week feels like a stepping stone now. A four o'clock alarm to go and play … I can't wait for that. And I've learned it's OK not to be OK. People will always listen.
'The second chance I've been given, whatever I do in life is always going to be filled with joy because of what I've dealt with.'
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Courier-Mail
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20 hours ago
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Aussie Huni suffers shock KO in UK showdown
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"I don't profess to being any Usyk or Justis Huni who has all the skills, but I know how to win fights and that's one thing I knew I had to do tonight," Wardley said in the ring. "Justis Huni is a great operator. We'd drilled everything over and over again. I should've performed better in some of those rounds. "He's a great boxer, some great skills and he showed me everything he had tonight. I didn't expect to bank rounds like that with Justis. I hurt him a bit in the first round and maybe I had too much confidence early on." Australian heavyweight Justis Huni's valiant bid for the WBA Interim world title has been ended by devastating 10th-round knockout to rising English star Fabio Wardley. The 26-year-old from Brisbane had stepped in at short notice to replace injured American fighter Jarrell Miller and for nine rounds looked in complete control in front of a raucous crowd at Portman Road, the home of Wardley's beloved English soccer team Ipswich Town. Boasting a glittering amateur career, including a World Championships bronze, Huni looked keen to display his credentials on the big stage. He demonstrated his firepower from the off, causing Wardley real problems with powerful combinations, mercilessly targeting the body as he racked up round after round on the judges' scorecards. Huni insisted he hadn't flown over 10,000 miles not to try to cause an upset and his stinging right hand, lively footwork and impressive hand speed continued to cause problems as the tiring Briton battled to contain his opponent going into the tenth. But it was then that Wardley somehow pulled out a stunning right-hand from absolutely nowhere, forcing an astonishing KO and sending his relieved fans into wild celebrations. "That's my curse. I even said before this fight it only takes one second to switch off, it happened tonight," Hunis told DAZN. "I'm grateful to Fabio and his team and to Ipswich to be able to perform in front of you. Get behind him, he's going to do great things. "He's just an awesome fighter. He never gave up and he got the win, he deserves it. Thank you Ipswich for the opportunity to perform here, I'm grateful." Wardley, whose win will boost his WBA ranking with the sanctioning body, was keen to praise the previously unbeaten Aussie for his performance. "I don't profess to being any Usyk or Justis Huni who has all the skills, but I know how to win fights and that's one thing I knew I had to do tonight," Wardley said in the ring. "Justis Huni is a great operator. We'd drilled everything over and over again. I should've performed better in some of those rounds. "He's a great boxer, some great skills and he showed me everything he had tonight. I didn't expect to bank rounds like that with Justis. I hurt him a bit in the first round and maybe I had too much confidence early on." Australian heavyweight Justis Huni's valiant bid for the WBA Interim world title has been ended by devastating 10th-round knockout to rising English star Fabio Wardley. The 26-year-old from Brisbane had stepped in at short notice to replace injured American fighter Jarrell Miller and for nine rounds looked in complete control in front of a raucous crowd at Portman Road, the home of Wardley's beloved English soccer team Ipswich Town. Boasting a glittering amateur career, including a World Championships bronze, Huni looked keen to display his credentials on the big stage. He demonstrated his firepower from the off, causing Wardley real problems with powerful combinations, mercilessly targeting the body as he racked up round after round on the judges' scorecards. Huni insisted he hadn't flown over 10,000 miles not to try to cause an upset and his stinging right hand, lively footwork and impressive hand speed continued to cause problems as the tiring Briton battled to contain his opponent going into the tenth. But it was then that Wardley somehow pulled out a stunning right-hand from absolutely nowhere, forcing an astonishing KO and sending his relieved fans into wild celebrations. "That's my curse. I even said before this fight it only takes one second to switch off, it happened tonight," Hunis told DAZN. "I'm grateful to Fabio and his team and to Ipswich to be able to perform in front of you. Get behind him, he's going to do great things. "He's just an awesome fighter. He never gave up and he got the win, he deserves it. Thank you Ipswich for the opportunity to perform here, I'm grateful." Wardley, whose win will boost his WBA ranking with the sanctioning body, was keen to praise the previously unbeaten Aussie for his performance. "I don't profess to being any Usyk or Justis Huni who has all the skills, but I know how to win fights and that's one thing I knew I had to do tonight," Wardley said in the ring. "Justis Huni is a great operator. We'd drilled everything over and over again. I should've performed better in some of those rounds. "He's a great boxer, some great skills and he showed me everything he had tonight. I didn't expect to bank rounds like that with Justis. I hurt him a bit in the first round and maybe I had too much confidence early on." Australian heavyweight Justis Huni's valiant bid for the WBA Interim world title has been ended by devastating 10th-round knockout to rising English star Fabio Wardley. The 26-year-old from Brisbane had stepped in at short notice to replace injured American fighter Jarrell Miller and for nine rounds looked in complete control in front of a raucous crowd at Portman Road, the home of Wardley's beloved English soccer team Ipswich Town. Boasting a glittering amateur career, including a World Championships bronze, Huni looked keen to display his credentials on the big stage. He demonstrated his firepower from the off, causing Wardley real problems with powerful combinations, mercilessly targeting the body as he racked up round after round on the judges' scorecards. Huni insisted he hadn't flown over 10,000 miles not to try to cause an upset and his stinging right hand, lively footwork and impressive hand speed continued to cause problems as the tiring Briton battled to contain his opponent going into the tenth. But it was then that Wardley somehow pulled out a stunning right-hand from absolutely nowhere, forcing an astonishing KO and sending his relieved fans into wild celebrations. "That's my curse. I even said before this fight it only takes one second to switch off, it happened tonight," Hunis told DAZN. "I'm grateful to Fabio and his team and to Ipswich to be able to perform in front of you. Get behind him, he's going to do great things. "He's just an awesome fighter. He never gave up and he got the win, he deserves it. Thank you Ipswich for the opportunity to perform here, I'm grateful." Wardley, whose win will boost his WBA ranking with the sanctioning body, was keen to praise the previously unbeaten Aussie for his performance. "I don't profess to being any Usyk or Justis Huni who has all the skills, but I know how to win fights and that's one thing I knew I had to do tonight," Wardley said in the ring. "Justis Huni is a great operator. We'd drilled everything over and over again. I should've performed better in some of those rounds. "He's a great boxer, some great skills and he showed me everything he had tonight. I didn't expect to bank rounds like that with Justis. I hurt him a bit in the first round and maybe I had too much confidence early on."
