AUSTIN, TEXAS—Defending champion Jason Day tearfully withdrew from the Dell Technologies Match Play after six holes Wednesday so he could be with his mother when she has surgery for lung cancer. Day said his mother, Dening, was diagnosed in Australia at the start of the year and told she had 12 months to live. He brought her to Ohio in the last month for more tests, hopeful that surgery would lead to a chance for a recovery. And it’s been really hard to play golf lately this year. And it’s hard enough to see another one go through it.”His father, Alvin, died of stomach cancer when Day was 12.

Source: thestar March 23, 2017 00:22 UTC