Where other people picture a vacation, retired LPGA star pictures one quiet morning, with no monitor, no timer, and no “counting seconds on the clock” while she holds her daughter. Jane Park spent most of her weeks grinding through LPGA Tour fields, chasing birdies and holding on to her card, but today, her toughest rounds happen at home in Atlanta, where she counts seconds instead of strokes.

Now, in a series of Instagram stories, the retired LPGA pro has opened up about a brutal stretch for her daughter, Grace. “I’m scared for my little girl,” Park wrote after weeks in which Grace’s seizures have felt out of control.

Fans have followed this journey for years, and this update is among the rawest. Park wondered aloud whether Grace has outgrown her current medication dosages, or whether this is simply the natural course of her brain. She compared watching a seizure to a slow-motion car crash, where all she can do is wait and hope it ends. She also said her nervous system feels shot.

Park hasn’t shared a cause, and no one outside Grace’s medical team can say whether the change is tied to dosage, growth, or something else. She said she is hoping it’s only a rough patch. In earlier updates, she described Grace’s seizures changing, happening less often but growing more intense.

The second and third stories are quieter, and harder to read. Park described thinking about “a soft place to land” the way other people think about vacations. It isn’t a spot on a map, she wrote, but a feeling: a morning without tense shoulders, with no monitor, no timer, and no counting seconds while she holds Grace.

Then she admitted how long she has been strong. She had forgotten strength was something you could set down. Her wish, in her words, is for “A place where she can finally rest, and I can too.”

To understand why those words are so powerful, it helps to look at Park’s story. She turned professional in 2006 and earned full LPGA status in 2007 by winning the Final Qualifying Tournament. She spent about 15 years on tour, with her best finish in the 10 years that followed coming at the 2018 Kia Classic, where she tied for fourth.

Then her life changed. Park and her husband, Pete Godfrey, had their daughter Grace in 2020. In July 2021, Grace suddenly got a fever and then had seizures. She spent a month in the ICU. Doctors told her parents that she might never get better. Grace survived, but the seizures caused brain damage.

She was later diagnosed with intractable epilepsy, a form of epilepsy in which seizures cannot be controlled with medication. Grace does not speak, and Park eventually left professional golf to care for her full time.

She began painting golf-themed art, and Golf Digest has described how she works in a studio at home with Grace nearby, sometimes helped by a nurse. Park has said that Grace, who has never spoken to her, has changed her. She has also used that art for a cause, releasing limited-edition Masters-inspired paintings as part of an art fundraiser for the Epilepsy Foundation. Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko were among the LPGA stars who publicly backed it.

Earlier reports said Grace’s doctors were discussing a stereo EEG, a brain-monitoring procedure to help decide whether surgery might be an option. These latest stories don’t say where that stands, so it’s unconfirmed. Here’s how it looks. Park has spoken openly about Grace’s seizures for years, but these recent stories feel different. There is no fundraiser or painting this time. It is simply a mother talking about how tired she is.

That honesty may be why the posts have touched so many fans who followed Grace during her time on tour. For other parents going through something similar, Park’s words offer a simple message: being strong does not mean you are always okay.

The golf world cannot fix what Grace is going through. But Park’s message is easy to understand and hold on to: a peaceful morning, a quiet body, and a little girl who gets to rest. Many people are hoping that a peaceful moment comes soon.