Pros, media and fans react to Gary Woodland's incredible story and return to the PGA Tour after brain surgery

Gary Woodland is making his return to the PGA Tour this week at the Sony Open in Hawaii. On Sept. 18 of last year, Woodland announced via his social media account that he underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his brain.

“I had gone four and a half months of every day really thinking I was going to die,” he said during his pre-tournament press conference Tuesday at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. “Every day it was a new way of dying, new way of death. The jolting in the middle of the night scared the heck out of me.”

The Tour's Twitter/X account posted a video of Woodland's press conference, and various pros, media members and fans responded with words of encouragement and support.

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