The PGA Tour announced Monday that Camilo Villegas’ 22-month-old daughter passed away after doctors found tumors in her brain and spinal column.
Last month, before the Korn Ferry Tour restarted at TPC Sawgrass, Villegas revealed that his only daughter, Mia, was receiving treatment. He said he noticed in late February that he was acting differently, and the scans revealed that tumors had started to form in his brain and spine. She was being treated at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami.
“The PGA Tour is deeply saddened to have lost a member of our family, Mia Villegas,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. “We grieve with Camilo and María and our thoughts and prayers go out to the Villegas family.”
Encouraged by his family, Villegas played the Korn Ferry Tour event and competed earlier in the week before finally ending in a tie for 33rd place. It has been his only start in recent months.
When Villegas spoke to the media last month, he said Mia was on her second round of chemotherapy and that doctors should know more about her prognosis in the next month or two.
“Hopefully it is just an obstacle on the road for her and for us,” he said, “and we will celebrate that day that she is clean.”
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