PGA Tour star Russell Henley had fans in tears after an emotional moment with his wife and three children on the 18th green at Bay Hill on Sunday evening.
Henley, 35, won his fifth PGA Tour event at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and his first in three years, after beating Collin Morikawa and Corey Conners to scoop the eye-watering $4million prize.
What happened after he sunk his final putt on the 18th green created most of the headlines, though, as his family invaded the green to celebrate with the winner.
In emotional scenes broadcast on CBS, his three children Robert, Ruth and Jane can be seen sprinting to be with their dad just seconds after he sealed the win.
They are followed by his wife Teil, who Henley recently referred to as the ‘steel of his spine’.
On social media, fans loved the emotional family moment, with Skip Bayless even admitting that the moment made him cry.
Posting on X, he wrote: ‘Watching Russell Henley’s 3 kids and wife run onto the 18th green to hug him after he made that 3 1-2-footer to win Arnie’s tourney brought tears to my eyes.
‘What a gutsy grinder he is, not the most talented. As he just said, ‘Golf is so hard.’ Amen.’
Henley first won on the PGA Tour back in 2013 in Hawaii, before picking up another in 2014, and his third in Houston in 2017.
He then had to wait five-and-a-half years for his fourth, at the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico in November 2022.
‘Hats off to Collin, he played great, super-steady, but sometimes golf is just mean like that,’ Henley told CBS after his win.
‘I was so nervous, so unbelievably nervous. I can’t breathe right now. It’s so hard and so difficult around this place.
‘I just tried to stay really tough. I’ve watched Tiger [Woods] make a lot of putts on this green. I’ve watched Rory [McIlroy], Fran [Francesco Molinari] and Bryson [DeChambeau] make winning putts here, and it’s cool to know I did it too.’
