Masters 2026: Gary Woodland was asked about his PTSD. He had a lot to say
Speaking at Augusta National, Gary Woodland opened up about his battle with PTSD from brain surgery.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Gary Woodland tried his best to hold it together as he explained what was tearing him apart. Woodland is at the Masters thanks to winning the Houston Open, a performance that can only be appreciated when knowing what came before it.
Last month, Woodland told the world what he'd been living with. Not the version everyone had agreed to believe: the brain surgery survivor, the comeback, the feel-good story that galleries cheered when they spotted him walking up the fairway. The real one.
He had reached his limit on a specific kind of exhaustion. The exhaustion of pretending. He was, in his words, dying inside.
For more than a year he had been carrying something the leaderboard couldn't see. The formal diagnosis had come about a year earlier: post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition most commonly associated with combat veterans, first responders, survivors of violence. RELATED: Gary Woodland didn't beat PTSD.