Aus Masters: Jarrod Lyle's Return From Cancer

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Lawrence Money on the return to golf by two-time cancer survivor Jarrod Lyle at this week's Australian Masters at Royal Melbourne.

Lyle hasn't lost any of his sense of humor:

"I still stand up to pee," says pro golfer Jarrod Lyle. "And they haven't made any special tees for me at the golf course." It's his private joke. Fact is, Lyle resumes his cancer-stricken golfing career in the Australian Masters at Royal Melbourne this week thanks in part to an umbilical-cord blood transplant from a young girl in Germany. "There were no adult donors on the worldwide registry," he explains. "So I try to make a bit of humour out of a shitty situation, mate." Lyle's easygoing country-boy manner has been sorely tested in the past 20 months.