There are more important things than golf.
Kenny Perry, a 14-time PGA Tour and 10-time PGA Tour Champions winner, hasn't made a professional start since 2021. On Wednesday, the 62-year-old revealed on SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio that he retired from professional golf to be there full-time for his ailing wife.
"I'll let the world know ... my wife's sick," Perry told Brian Katrek and John Maginnes on Katrek & Maginnes On Tap. "I'm her caretaker and I'm going to take great care of her. Alzheimer's is a terrible disease."
Perry added that when he left the tour, his wife, Lesslye, 62, would have trouble following him on the course at tournaments, and he'd have to "chase her down.