ROBERT ALLENBY, whose emotional breakdown on the 15th at Huntingdale on Sunday when the Australian Masters was lost in front of his dying mother Sylvia was there for all to see, very nearly didn't board the plane north on Tuesday morning for the $1.5 million PGA Championship which starts at Coolum today.
Allenby tossed the thought around in his mind on Monday when he hosted his annual charity day for Challenge Cancer in Melbourne and came to the conclusion he might not be mentally and emotionally ready to play this week.
His mother, who has been taken off her medication and treatment for kidney and lung cancer, attended the charity dinner at Melbourne's Crown Casino on Monday evening, and that, too, was an emotional affair.
Over breakfast on Tuesday, Allenby said to his mother: "Mum, I'm happy to stay home and be with you. I don't have to go play. You're more important than golf. Tell me what you'd like me to do."
"Go up there and win the tournament," she replied.
Then she added: "I'd love to to win the tournament but, if you don't win, don't worry about it. It's not the end of the world. I'll still love you."
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