PGA Tour, players hold celebration of life for Grayson Murray - ESPN

DUBLIN, Ohio — Dozens of players gathered Tuesday for a solemn celebration of life for Grayson Murray, the PGA Tour winner who took his own life a day after withdrawing from a tournament.

«All of us at the PGA Tour carry a heavy heart and will for a long time to come,» PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said, his voice cracking at times. «When you lose a family member, you can never quite put all the pieces back together.»

Murray's parents, two siblings and fiancée were not at Memorial Park, a garden that sits below the first tee at Muirfield Village, its rock walls filled with bronze plaques of players who have been honored at the Memorial over the years.

Next to the podium was Murray's golf bag, along with a large framed photograph of his reaction to making a 40-foot birdie in a playoff to win the Sony Open in January.

His parents said he died by suicide on May 25, one day after he walked off the course at Colonial with two holes remaining in the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge. He was 30.

Among those who spoke at the celebration was Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who came to know Murray better in the early part of the year, as Murray was trying to get his fiancée more involved with some of the players' wives.

They played a nine-hole practice round at The Players Championship, Murray and Chesson Hadley against Scheffler and Sam Burns.

«The look on his face when I gave him $100 on the ninth green is something I'll remember for a long time because you couldn't wipe that smile off his face,» Scheffler said. «Without a doubt, he loved being out here inside the ropes.»

Scheffler referred to him as a «sweet man» on more than one occasion, and he was weeping when he walked away from the podium, then buried