Beset by health issues, Morgan Hoffmann and his journey take a stunning turn | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

It’s one of those developments in professional golf for which you just shake your head and say, “What the heck?”

Those who have followed the game closely in the last few years know the story of Morgan Hoffmann. He is the former No. 1 ranked amateur in the world who starred at Oklahoma State and seemed destined for loads of PGA Tour success.

Then he was diagnosed in 2016 at the age of 27 with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Years of struggle and unsatisfying medical treatments would come before Hoffman and his wife traveled to the jungles of Costa Rica for them to basically live off the grid and him to partake in alternative approaches—a journey chronicled by Golf Digest.

Hoffmann, saying his health was improving, returned to the PGA Tour in April 2022at the RBC Heritage on a major medical exemption, and though he missed the cut in three of five starts, there was reason for optimism. Yet he didn’t make a start last year, and now he’s …