This year’s Victoria Open winner Michael Hendry is set to return to the fairways in Queensland this weekend.
The 44-year-old will be in action at the Nudgee Golf Club after being diagnosed with leukaemia in April and undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy.
This will be Hendry’s first PGA Tour of Australasia event after warming up with events on the Charles Tour in New Zealand.
“It has been an emotional rollercoaster and a really difficult time physically as well but… have worked really hard fitness-wise, probably harder than my doctors wanted me to but I was hellbent on getting back out here,” Hendry recently told media.
“I am in what they call complete remission but the cancer is still detectable in my bone marrow so it will come back,” he said.
“When that (will) happen, no-one knows so I am in a monitoring phase at the moment. I have to miss the Victorian PGA because I have to go home for a bone marrow biopsy that week and then I will be back for the Australian PGA.”
