Gary Woodland didn't beat PTSD. He just refused to let it win

Gary Woodland kept it together until he couldn't anymore, his arms going up as the ball went down and all of himself coming out, in a way that only happens when something arrives after you'd stopped being certain it would. He embraced his wife, both in tears, a joy so tangled with relief and pain that there's no clean word for it, that few people who've lived inside that question know what the answer feels like. “We tell an individual sport, but I wasn’t alone today,” Woodland said.

“I got a lot of people behind me. Anyone who is struggling with something, I hope they don’t give up. Just keep fighting.

” Sports are at their best when the score is beside the point. That sounds like a contradiction until you've watched something that makes it true. Houston was one of those weeks.

Gary Woodland won a golf tournament, his first win in seven years, and a performance so commanding the outcome was never in doubt over the final three hours. And that matters. Just not as much as what came before it Three weeks ago, Woodland sat down with Golf Channel and told the world what he'd been living with.