PGA Tour professional Morgan Hoffmann has been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, he revealed in a lengthy post to The Players' Tribune on Monday.
In the first-person article, Hoffmann, 28, wrote that he first started noticing a deterioration in his right pectoral muscle back in 2011. After five years of misdiagnoses and tests, it was determined last year that he has the incurable disease.
"In my case, my muscular dystrophy is currently causing my right and left pecs to atrophy," he revealed. "Where the disease will attack next, I'm not sure. The characteristics of this specific type of MD (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy) are atrophy of the chest, back, neck, arms and sometimes legs.