Not long after using Twitter to open up about his struggles with alcoholism, Grayson Murray returned to the social media platform on Sunday with a post announcing he was seeking treatment.
Murray, winner of the 2017 Barbasol Championship on the PGA Tour, announced he’s been in treatment 12 days.
“I still have a long ways to go and have made a promise to myself that i wouldn’t leave until i was 100% ready for the real world again,” he wrote as part of the message.
In a July 24 post to Twitter, Murray revealed his struggles with Tour life that he said had led him to become an alcoholic. Murray claimed he was on probation with the PGA Tour after he got drunk in a Hawaii hotel bar despite causing “no scene whatsoever.” He also expressed disappointment that the Tour didn’t help him deal with his alcohol problem.
I’ve been in treatment the last 12 days for my alcohol. I still have a long ways to go and have made a promise to myself that i wouldn’t leave until i was 100% ready for the real world again. Thanks for all the messages it means a lot.
— Grayson Murray (@GraysonMurray) August 8, 2021
“We can unequivocally say that the PGA Tour is a family, and when a member of that family needs help, we are there for him. That has been the case here and will continue to be,” the PGA Tour said in a statement to Golfweek after Murray’s July 24 accusations.
Murray has played 22 events in the 2020-21 PGA Tour season but made only six cuts. He last played the weekend at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, a team event in which he partnered with Rob Oppenheim.
Since turning professional in 2015, Murray has traveled a tumultuous road on the Tour, often getting himself into hot water with volatile social media posts. He was once ranked as high as No. 85 in the Official World Golf Ranking but has fallen to No. 499.