Last Friday, Jane Park’s 10-month old daughter Grace was hospitalized with seizures and brain swelling during the Volunteers of America Classic in Dallas, where she remains in critical condition.
Good friend Tiffany Joh organized a GoFundMe account to help raise support. An LPGA.com post noted that doctors believe Grace’s seizures are caused by a virus or autoimmune issue and expect her to be hospitalized for at least three weeks.
On Wednesday, dozens of players, caddies and officials gathered on the 18th green at the Marathon Classic in Toledo to pray for Grace. The LPGA blew the horn at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. so that those who were on the course could stop and think of the family as well. Park’s husband, Pete Godfrey, regularly caddies for Ariya Jutanugarn. The couple met on tour.
Park, 34, started a blog on Wednesday to help keep her supporters around the globe informed. The 2004 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion joined the LPGA in 2007.
“I never thought I would be able to correctly identify the beeping of monitors and machines in a cold hospital room,” Park wrote in her opening blog post. “After all, the first time I was ever admitted into a hospital was when I was giving birth to my little one.”
In case you haven’t been following… here’s Grace’s story pic.twitter.com/JrqWZy3QSs
— Jeehae Lee (@jeehaeda) July 8, 2021
Joh, a former teammate of Park’s at UCLA, is known for her music videos on tour. On Thursday, she attached a video to the GoFundMe account with a beautiful rendition of “Amazing Grace.” Earlier this week, Joh told womensgolf.com that this week’s Marathon Classic would be her final event on tour.
“I always call us a traveling circus,” said Emma Talley, who helped organize the tour-wide prayer session, “and we’re also a traveling family. We’re all together every single week and we go from place to place. So just shows we were a family, and when people are in need we can help.”