Séamus Power has been playing on the PGA Tour for the past seven years and has in the past year even made it inside the top thirty players in the world.
In 2022 he finished inside the top 15 at the PGA Championship and US Open and also won the Butterfield Bermuda Championship in October.
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Yet despite his growing list of accomplishments, the 36-year-old from Tooraneena in West Waterford keeps a relatively low profile with fellow Irish golfer Pádraig Harrington saying in the past that he appears to like doing his "own thing."
However, in what may be considered a surprising move, he has sat down for an exclusive interview with Paul Kimmage that features in today's Sunday Independent.
In the interview Power speaks about losing his mother Philomena (Philo) at the age of just eight, admitting that he doesn't have "many memories" of her.
"That’s one of the saddest things," he tells Kimmage when asked.
"I remember ... I was home about six or seven years ago, looking for something in the house, and I saw a picture and said to my dad, “Who’s that?” He said, “What do you mean?” It was my mum before she got sick. So my only memories of her is when she was going through chemo and lost her hair, which was tough.
I was about four or five when she got it first, a melanoma. Then she got the all-clear and went back for a check-up, I think in early ’95, and there was no stopping it. She died in December. They brought us in just before. When they knew she wouldn’t survive. But I’ve no recollection of that, which is weird, because I can remember crystal clear the morning she died. We were staying in my grandmother’s house near Kilmacthomas. My dad wasn’t there when we went to bed, but he was there when we came down the stairs, and without anyone saying anything we knew."
Power also discusses the funeral:
"I remember there was a guard of honour and it was bizarre because your friends and everyone that you knew was around, and you were kind of like ... not waving and smiling, but you were delighted to see people. I don’t think, as a kid, you could grasp what had happened. It didn’t register until you saw the coffin going into the ground, that’s when it kind of hit me."
Séamus Power discusses grief of losing mother
The grief that Séamus Power and his family experienced is also touched on in the interview, with the pro golfer admitting it was a "really tough" time particularly for his father Ned.
"I often think about that looking back. It must have been so hard on my dad. I remember little things, lying in bed and trying to figure it out, being in the house and knowing your dad is really sad, really struggling, and trying to help but being useless because you’re only eight. It was really tough. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
"For a long time, I wasn’t able to process it. People would ask, ‘What do your parents do?’ I would never tell them. I would never mention the fact that my mum had passed away. So it’s only recently. I do a lot of reading and stuff and came across this thing: ‘If you were to write your mother’s eulogy.’ And it made me realise, ‘I don’t know much about her life.’ So I reached out to my aunt and uncle and to my dad, and I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner because there was so much I didn’t know.
Power also discusses his early golf career and his new life in Las Vegas where he is currently living. The full interview is certainly worth a read.
He is currently in action at the Wells Fargo Championship in Quail Hollow where he sits in a tie for 16th after three rounds, nine shots behind leader Wyndham Clark ahead of the final round today.
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