Kenny Perry kisses his spouse, Sandy, at TPC Harding Park on November 3, 2013 in San Francisco, California.
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Kenny Perry hasn’t performed since the 2021 Charles Schwab Cup Championship, however there was by no means a proper retirement announcement from the now-62-year-old.
The 14-time PGA Tour and 10-time PGA Tour Champions winner was nonetheless ending in the prime 50 on the over-50 circuit when he stopped enjoying.
But some issues are simply extra essential than golf.
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In an emotional interview with SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, Perry revealed he retired to look after his spouse Sandy, who’s affected by Alzheimer’s.
“I’ll let the world know: My wife’s sick,” Perry advised Brian Katrek and John Maginnes on Katrek & Maginnes On Tap. “I’m her caretaker. And, you know, I’m going to take great care of her. And you know that Alzheimer’s is this terrible disease.”
Perry mentioned he made the choice when he realized Sandy may now not comply with him on the golf course.
“I would chase her down, going down the wrong hole,” Perry mentioned. “At the [U.S.] Senior Open two years in the past, and it was a 36-hole advanced, and she or he ended up going off on the different 18 holes.
“I realized right then, you know, it’s time for me to do something else. And it’s all good. She’s happy.”
He mentioned Sandy remains to be very lively and even “walks me to death” when the couple goes out for some train. She simply has reminiscence points at this level.
In addition to caring for Sandy, Perry mentioned he desires to be an advocate for locating a treatment for the illness.
“I’ll probably start kind of being a spokesman for [it],” he mentioned. “I’ll probably start looking into more of that and help other people who have the same conditions I’m looking into. You know, I’m trying to figure it out.”
Perry mentioned he’s been to “every doctor in Nashville, Vanderbilt” in search of somebody who can discover a treatment. He mentioned there are solely therapies to gradual the illness’s development.
“That’s all I want to do,” Perry mentioned. “So she’ll know her grandkids and know me and just enjoy the rest of her life. I mean, we’ve worked so hard to get to this point, and I hate to see it to where she can’t enjoy it. You know, it’s pretty sad.”
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