Chris Kirk addressed the question of how long he’s ok with addiction narrative attached to his name

Chris Kirk addressed the question of how long he’s ok with addiction narrative attached to his name. Jan 7-2024

Um I can’t think of a better way to put this but when you you know when you were contending at Rock and Mortgage in 20 and won on corn fery certainly won Honda last year it’s always you know the the guy who had to step away to to overcome

Alcohol and depression Etc how much longer or will that be with you when you when you do something great the first reference is the guy who did this as opposed to who you are as a player and are you okay with that I hope it stays

With me forever it’s a you know it’s a huge part of my of my life uh still now and and um you know definitely the the best thing that I’ve ever done in in my life was to get sober so I I understand what you’re saying

That you know I but I don’t feel like it’s taking away from anything that I’m accomplishing um it’s you know it’s 100% the reason why I’m able to do what I do you know it’s I’ve said that a lot but um there would be my PGA Tour career

Would have been over a while ago um had I not gotten sober and uh so yeah I’m I’m fine with that that staying with me for till the day I die could you have could you have done what you did without uh going public um I’ve never really thought

About that if I could have um it certainly has been helpful and been beneficial to me to be open and and be public about it um you know I live a decent out of my life sort of in in the public view somewhat anyways and uh

So you know the the biggest thing for me was you know waking up every morning and looking at myself in the mirror and knowing that I’ve got nothing to hide and I can be proud of who I am and so I didn’t feel like that was really going

To be quite as possible if I if I was not um open about it kind of an accountability thing somewhat I guess so yeah but it’s just it was more of just the the freedom of of not lying to myself and lying to other people and you

Know that’s that’s what it was more yeah know there is some sense of accountability there for sure um but uh yeah like I said it’s definitely more about just you know I felt felt free for the first time in a long time