Lyle rests after spell of chemo

TORQUAY golf star Jarrod Lyle is resting at home after starting treatment for his third battle with leukaemia.

The 36-year-old father of two was released from hospital last week after a round of chemotherapy and will take a break from treatment at home with his wife Briony and children Lusi and Jemma.

“You know what, it’s kind of a weird feeling, because it’s kind of like your safety blanket, when you’re in hospital,” Lyle said on Golf Australia’s Inside The Ropes podcast.

“If something goes wrong, the doctors are right there, that kind of stuff. Going home is a great feeling, going home to see my girls and see them running around the house, having fun, doing all that.

“It makes you sort of realise that all the crap you go through is worth it because you get to go home and see them.”

Lyle said he wasn’t sure if he would play golf again, instead he would focus on winning his battle with the disease.

“Golf again has disappeared into the background,” he said.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be playing again, or come back for one event and do a Johnny Farnham, make a comeback tour and then disappear again and then come back again.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen with golf, but having, obviously, having the girls there, having two kids to watch grow up, to take to school and that sort of fun stuff is what’s driving me.”

The Torquay Sands golfer fought and defeated the disease in 1998 and 2012, only for it to resurface again recently.

He said having those two experiences would help drive him through the long, hard road that is treatment for the disease.

“It helps a lot because I know exactly what’s going to come,” Lyle said.

“I know how I am going to feel, what’s coming, what the chemo is going to do to me.

“It’s a never ending cycle (of treatment).”