Scott Harrington stepped away from golf last year to care for his wife, Jenn, who was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. With Jenn’s cancer in remission, Harrington returned to the game in January, and on Sunday he fulfilled his PGA Tour dream.
Scott secured a PGA Tour card for the first time as the 38-year-old finished second in the WinCo Portland Open to clinch a top-25 finish in the development tour standings. After finishing the final round, the Oregon native shared an emotional embrace with Jenn, who flew in Saturday night.
“We’ve been through so much,” Harrington said, according to Golf Channel. “I just had a feeling all year, even when I got off to a bad start, I knew. I knew this was going to be the year. I just love her so much. To do it for her, and everything she’s been through, I just can’t put into words.”
Harrington returned to the Korn Ferry Tour in January, missing the cut in his first three appearances and five of his first seven. Before taking a leave last year, he was a full-time player on the development tour since 2013.
Jenn was initially diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in August 2017, according to PGATour.com, and was deemed cancer-free in December of that year after more than three months of chemotherapy. But she found May 11 last year that the cancer returned.
She triumphed once again, and now the Harringtons have even more to celebrate.


