NAPA, Calif. — Jarrod Lyle’s caddie reached into Lyle’s golf bag after their round was over and popped a cough lozenge into his mouth. Of all the threats lurking on the Silverado course, the site of this past week’s Frys.com Open, perhaps none pose a greater hazard to Lyle than his caddie’s sore throat.
“I was worried that I’d get him sick,” Lyle’s caddie, Darren Woolard, said.
It was a valid concern. Lyle, 34, underwent a double umbilical cord blood transplant in 2012 after his second bout with acute myeloid leukemia. He returned to competition in late 2013 and tried to resume a full schedule last year, starting at this event.