Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer, Dies at 36

Jarrod Lyle of Australia at the Frys.com Open in Napa, Calif., in 2015. He played in more than 120 P.G.A. tournaments.Jarrod Lyle, an Australian professional golfer who had five top-10 finishes on the P.G.A. Tour only to have his playing career interrupted by recurring bouts of cancer, died on Wednesday, a year after his latest relapse. He was 36.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Briony Lyle, in a statement issued by Golf Australia, the sport’s governing body in the country. It comes just over a week after she announced in a post on Lyle’s Facebook page that he was entering palliative care.

Lyle turned professional in 2004 and first appeared on the P.G.A. Tour in 2007. In 2008, he won two…