How a Golfer’s Wife Overcame Her Addiction to Alcohol
By KAREN CROUSEJUNE 22, 2017
Billy Horschel was enjoying one last serene meal with his wife, Brittany, in New York on Wednesday before they returned home to Florida to rejoin their rambunctious 2-year-old daughter
and her infant sister when Horschel received a pinging alert on his phone.
“I ultimately felt like golf was the most important part of me, the part that made me interesting,” Brittany said.
“I was alone all day in a hotel room with an infant,” Brittany said, adding, “When Billy’s in tournament mode he’s really focused, which is fine,
but even when he was back in the hotel room, he wasn’t really there.
The Horschels started dating at Florida, though Billy, 30, said he had been smitten with Brittany,
29, since their first meeting at a junior golf tournament outside Miami in 2004.
“I knew I needed help, but I didn’t know how to say the words and I didn’t want to embarrass Billy,” Brittany said.
Brittany, whom Billy described as a bulldog competitor, hurried back from her first surgery because she missed tournament golf.
“It’s hard for me to think back to how I was,” said Brittany, a recovering alcoholic who
spent two months last year as an inpatient at a Delray Beach, Fla., treatment center.
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