{"id":70384,"date":"2026-03-30T08:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/gary-woodland-wins-houston-open-after-brain-surgery-and-ptsd-struggles-today-was-a-good-day\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:54:51","slug":"gary-woodland-wins-houston-open-after-brain-surgery-and-ptsd-struggles-today-was-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/gary-woodland-wins-houston-open-after-brain-surgery-and-ptsd-struggles-today-was-a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Woodland wins Houston Open after brain surgery and PTSD struggles: \u2018Today was a good day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>41-year-old seals first PGA Tour win since 2019 US Open<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Brain lesion derailed American\u2019s career<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gary Woodland won the Houston Open on Sunday, a moment that seemed improbable 30 months ago when he had brain surgery, and even two weeks ago when he opened up about his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland looked close to his best at Memorial Park, coasting home to a trophy that felt as important as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/jun\/17\/woodland-holds-off-rose-and-koepka-to-win-us-open\">his US Open title at Pebble Beach in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> He closed with a three-under 67 to win by five shots over Nicolai Hojgaard. The gallery chanted Woodland\u2019s name before falling silent so he could roll in the winning putt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/30\/gary-woodland-wins-houston-open-after-brain-surgery-and-ptsd-struggles-today-was-a-good-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41-year-old seals first PGA Tour win since 2019 US Open Brain lesion derailed American\u2019s career Gary Woodland won the Houston Open on Sunday, a moment that seemed improbable 30 months ago when he had brain surgery, and even two weeks ago when he opened up about his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. Woodland looked close &#8230; <a title=\"Gary Woodland wins Houston Open after brain surgery and PTSD struggles: \u2018Today was a good day\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/gary-woodland-wins-houston-open-after-brain-surgery-and-ptsd-struggles-today-was-a-good-day\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gary Woodland wins Houston Open after brain surgery and PTSD struggles: \u2018Today was a good day\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}