Freddie Jacobson’s son Max recently underwent open-heart surgery and is doing well.
Professional golfers face hundreds of decisions throughout each round.
Do they hit a driver or iron? Go for the par-5 in two or lay up? Putt from off the green or chip?
But nothing Freddie Jacobson did during his 20-plus years of playing professionally — the last 13 on the PGA Tour — could prepare him for a decision he and wife Erika had to make after their youngest child, 7-year-old Max, was diagnosed with a heart defect earlier this year.