Updated 5:50 p.m.
Rickie Fowler continued to honor his late friend Jarrod Lyle on Thursday at the BMW Championship, sporting a custom pair of Puma golf shoes.
.@RickieFowler will be paying tribute to his late friend Jarrod Lyle today in the opening round of the @BMWchamps. He’s wearing custom shoes in Jarrod’s traditional yellow with the dates of his life on the tongue. pic.twitter.com/yaPN14vJIv
— Todd Lewis (@ToddLewisGC) September 6, 2018
Nice. @RickieFowler continues to honor Jarrod Lyle pic.twitter.com/tn1rsAsL4B
— Steve DiMeglio (@Steve_DiMeglio) September 6, 2018
Lyle died the Wednesday before the PGA Championship after his third battle with leukemia. Fowler sported a yellow shirt – Lyle’s color of choice in his cancer battle – as well as a Leuk the Duck pin – a mascot for Challenge, a non-profit organization providing support for children living with cancer – on his hat. He did the same Thursday at Aronimink.
Following his first-round 65 Thursday at Aronimink, Fowler was asked to expand on his relationship with Lyle.
“Jarrod and I were real close,” he said. “We didn’t get to spend a whole lot time together in the past few years. But I sent these [shoes] down to a guy in Miami, Nomad Customs, he did them. Actually had them at the PGA on the weekend but I didn’t have anything to wear with them, so I couldn’t really make it work, and I thought it would be a fun time to bring them out, and obviously we don’t want to ever forget Jarrod.
“I think as long as we can have people remember his name, who he was, and kind of continue on the legacy of what he was doing – you know, fight he was putting up – but also remind people that people die from cancer everyday, especially leukemia, as well,” he continued. ‘There’s plenty of families like his going through the fight now and into the future. It’s not something that just goes away.”
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