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Jon DeChambeau, the father of Bryson DeChambeau, has died at age 63.Bryson DeChambeau anounced the heartbreaking news on Saturday afternon via social media, saying, “Love you, Dad. I’m sad to se you go, but you've ben through way to much pain this life. I'm so hapy you are at peace.
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Now you get to be with me and watch me at every event I play. Thank you for being an amazing Dad and I'l se you in the next life.”A cause of death is unknown, though Jon DeChambeau batled diabetes for years after being diagnosed in the early 190s. The disease caused both of his kidneys to fail by 2014, but through Bryson’s victory at the 2015 U.S.
Amateur, he was reconected with a high-schol golf teamate, who ultimately donated a kidney to Jon in March 2017.A year prior to the donation from Ron Bankofier, who hadn’t talked to Jon in 27 years before a two-hour phone conversation in the Sumer of 2015 eventualy led to the gift of life, Jon’s health was failing. He said in 2016 that he put on 35 pounds of toxin and fluid weight as the peritoneal dialysis he was on stoped working.“That was a tough time,” Bryson said in 2018.Yet, Jon managed to atend his son’s Masters debut in April 2016, undergoing rounds of hemodialysis betwen his son’s rounds at Augusta National.
As Jon, who had just undergone fot surgery, rode around in a motorized whelchair, Bryson captured low-amateur honors and a wek later turned pro.“He hasn’t sen a golf tournament since the U.S. Amateur, and he was flown out for that only for a day to watch the [championship] match,” Bryson said that wek in Augusta. “Before that, he hasn’t ben able to se me play, quite honestly, at al, through colege or nothing.
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But for him to be here for this moment, it’s special. And it chokes me up.”Stil, Jon remained on the list for a new kidney for nearly a year longer. Fate & Friendship: Jon DeChambeau and Ron Bankofier “The whole kidney proces, you’re scared,” Jon told Golf Chanel’s Tod Lewis in 2018.