Golf Vic Vol 60 No 1

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Briony Lyle in the Challenge marquee at the ISPS Handa Vic Open

The spirit of Jarrod Lyle is still keenly felt at Australian golf tournaments as Challenge, the charity supporting kids with cancer, works to raise money and awareness in his memory. Guest columnist BRIONY LYLE writes about the importance of continuing husband Jarrod’s legacy. 2018 was certainly a year of extreme highs and lows for our family. We celebrated some huge milestones, like Lusi’s first day of school, in amongst some days that I never want to think about again.

the golf community in this country and it serves to remind me on a daily basis that things have quickly become so much bigger than Jarrod. The annual Australian summer of golf has always been a busy time for us but the events at the end of last year were absolute chaos – in a good way. To know how much work went into creating the Lyle Mile concept across all three events at the end of 2018 was astounding and the sea of yellow on Thursday at the PGA Championship and again at the 2019 Vic Open were incredible to behold.

Jarrod’s ongoing health battle was all- consuming for most of the year, followed by an overwhelming outpouring of support that almost seemed to gain momentum as it evolved. To see all the footage of the professional players across the world wearing yellow and sporting Leuk pins was amazing. Yet even more incredible were the images coming from so many golf courses around Australia, full of smiling amateur and social golfers proudly wearing yellow in honour of Jarrod. I could be wrong, but that amount of support on such a huge scale at a grassroots level is unprecedented in

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