When Justin Lower was 15, his dad Tim and brother Chris were on their way to the golf course to pick him up. Unfortunately, they never made it. Now on the PGA TOUR, Justin carries their memory with him every day of his life.
But obviously when you were 15 years old um a tough time in your life uh what happened and how did that shape you uh yeah so um I was at the golf course it was March 26 2005 um and uh my dad and brother were uh unfortunately killed in a car accident
Uh they were on their way to pick me up from the golf course um and yeah I mean it uh I mean you see it on you see it on the news you see it on TV shows you see in movies and you never think it’ll happen to you and it
And it and it did and it it’s something that I think about think about every day um it’s just kind of just kind of part of my life I guess and something that happened to me um and it it it may I may think about it for
Like a minute a day I may think about it for like an hour a day I may think of it for half a day it it changes just all the time but um no it it changed my whole life just uh the way I think think
About things the way I act just kind of everything your dad Tim your brother Chris was 10 years old you were 15 how were they at that point in your life instrumental to you as a golfer uh so my dad was huge um he’s the one who took me
To all the tournaments um both my parents were working parents growing up so uh my dad had more freedom uh calling off work and whatnot so uh yeah he was the one who would take me to tournaments and travel with me and and whatnot and my mom was always
Kind of with my brother and uh Chris was he was just getting in the golf um I remember I so I I had a deal with the local course um that I grew up at in Canal Folton uh Lion’s Den Golf Course um that uh we would work for free play
And work was basically picking up the range or cleaning up carts in the evening um so it was I thought it was amazing at the time looking back on it may have been uh maybe been abuse of power in a sense but no it’s uh uh yeah Chris had
Started to come out a little bit and was he was just getting into the game but he was he was more of a a video gamer slash uh this is weird to say as a 10-year-old but a US historian uh kind of a war buff
Uh he would set up the these epic like battles with these little toy soldiers I’m talking hundreds of them in his room and I would go in there and uh if I would touch one of them I would get just absolutely scolded so uh I I I quickly
Learned not to uh touch anything when he was uh doing anything but uh no he was just getting into it so it it yeah it it’d be really cool to see like where he’d be uh today I mean he’d be 29 uh like you never know what he’d be doing
Uh whe he could be cading for me he could be traveling he could be living somewhere and I wouldn’t hear from him for like a month and then he’d call me out the women we’ talk for five hours uh type of thing so you never you actually
Never know with him but uh no I I I missed them both dearly and i’ I’d basically give anything back to have a day with them
