PGA Tour Player Justin Lower shares his experience after losing his father and brother at the age of 15 and how focusing on golf was therapeutic to him as he kept on and achieved great heights despite tragedy.
When when you mention your dad and you mention your brother and and how they’re an inspiration to you and they’re with you all the time when that happened at 15 years old how Justin did it not destroy you and instead you’ve been able to channel it as an inspiration that you carry with
You for the rest of your life um I don’t know it’s a good question honestly just uh like I I could have very well let it let it kind of destroy me and take me down a path of unknown really even though it was basically a path of
Unknown um in in the long run but uh yeah it was just I I just wanted to just kind of Honor them and just uh play for them as much as I can and um just I know never not that I’d ever forget them but just never forget why I just kind kind
Of why I go through life and why I um why I play the game of golf and why I I strive to be a good person and strive to be a a good a good father a good husband and a good golfer and just kind of go from there really
Um yeah in in your example Justin and otherwise and people that are struggling whatever they’re struggling with you know many times with veterans that are dealing with PTSD etc etc are you convinced you believe that golf can be in and of itself a form of
Therapy 100% it can for me it was um I just those kind of formative years like when um when the accident happened um in they passed uh I definitely use golf is therapy I would just go to the golf course or the range and just I I I
Wasn’t even working on anything really um I was just kind of there and enjoying it and just trying to um just kind of go through it and find the joy in it and everything and it was it my my dad introduced me to the game so that’s something I’ll always
Have uh for sure just with him and whatnot so um I like I always have that passion with him and then my brother was slowly getting into it uh he had a lot of other interests um but he was slowly getting into it so I I always think what
He’d be doing right now and um he he maybe he’d be catting for me maybe he’d be um traveling with us who knows um he was just kind of kind of a free spirit uh uh so actually who knows what he would be doing but um no it’s it was it
Was definitely therapeutic for me just um just kind of going through it and finding the enjoyment of the game through it
