Of course one of the themes in the book is Jarrod’s fighting nature and ability to bounce back from repeated setbacks to his health and golf career. The Victorian’s ability to do so with a smile on his face, while also thinking of helping others, during his life made him a hero to many that will surely only become stronger as people read his words – something Briony believes her husband’s unquestionable talent for the game of golf and desire to achieve at the highest level perhaps held him back from seeing in himself.

“Someone said to me the other day, 'Do you think Jarrod felt that he actually achieved anything because he didn’t win on the course and have a big victory, did he ever realise just how much he achieved without having to have that big professional victory?' And my answer to that was no, because that’s what he wanted, he was an athlete, a sportsperson driven by his performance on the course.

“So for him, he didn’t necessarily consider overcoming cancer to be a great achievement, it’s just what he did along the way as he was trying to reach his great achievement if you like. So some people will read the book and say ‘Oh he achieved so much’, whereas he wouldn’t necessarily have thought that. I really enjoyed considering that question and thinking, no he wouldn’t have considered himself to be successful, whereas other people had thought of him in that way from a very young age.”

A proud non-reader of books in his life, the suspicion was that Jarrod might have made an exception for his own. However, his real excitement was to undertake the very promotional tour ‘Bri’ is now embarking upon.

“The one thing in the book process he was looking forward to was doing a book tour. Talking to people, because he was quite comfortable doing that. And he thought if anything that might give him an opening after golf. So, it’s funny now that I am the one doing that bit.”

Despite having not read many books, the words in this one are certainly Jarrod’s and credit must be paid to Hayes and Blake for their ability to capture his essence and language from the recordings ... Although there was an issue as to just how much of the more colourful language Lyle was fond of using from time to time should make the final product.

“During the process of putting together a book, there is lots of meetings with editors and publishers and those sorts of things, but the amount of meetings we had to have around how to go about dealing with Jarrod’s swearing, it was ridiculous,” Briony says with a laugh. “Because I didn’t realise how colourful it was, I haven’t heard the recordings, I wasn’t there for them, so the majority of what ‘Hayesy’ and ‘Blakey’ have got recorded I have never heard, and one day I will, and I think I am going to be quite shocked as to how he went about telling his story to them.

“When the guys did their first few chapters it was quite evident to me who was responsible for each chapter, because Blakey had taken the swearing out and Hayesy had left it all in. Because Hayesy said, 'That’s how Jarrod used to talk to me, anytime of the day, in any context, unless cameras were rolling so that’s the voice that needs to come through.' I responded that firstly I didn’t really hear all of that language, it certainly wasn’t how Jarrod spoke to me or the girls. But I had to kind of plead my case.

"I know that’s how a lot of people will remember him as having colourful language but it didn’t transfer very well onto the page and we always used to joke that his fan base was made up of women aged 65 and over, so I really didn’t want them to sit down and read it and be left with a really bad taste in their mouth and probably sit back and think ‘I thought I knew him, I thought he was a fine upstanding young man.'”

Due to the nature of book and the subject matter dealt with there is of course some language carefully left in, but the editing process was undertaken with great care to ensure Jarrod’s voice was heard as readers turn the pages.

Even with Briony’s concerns regarding the language used in the recordings, she knows deep down that every fan of the game of golf in the country and of Jarrod will forgive a little bit of colour added for emphasises.

Briony touched on the endless streams of stories she is told constantly by those she knows and doesn’t about Lyle, that will only increase as the book hits stores in August.

“I love it when I hear something I haven’t heard before,” she said when asked of being stopped to hear yet another Jarrod yarn. “And what I love most about it is that, I think that with a lot of Aussie male sportspeople, you either love them or hate them and for some of them playing at the elite level. That’s what Jarrod achieved on the PGA Tour, you couldn’t go much higher, you can be really polarising and typically have as many lovers as you do haters. But with Jarrod, even though he died and people would not want to speak ill of the dead or whatever, I don’t even get the impression that people are keeping a bad story to themselves and choosing to share a funny one or a good one, the bad stuff doesn’t exist really.

“Every story seems to be funny and uplifting, more than anything funny usually, and there is no one saying we better not talk about that incident or event because there is no bad stuff. They’re not making a choice, it’s just this is my story and my recollection and there is nothing that sours that. For him to have that impression on everybody he came in contact with, regardless of who they were, I think that just speaks volumes for who he was.”

And that exact reason, the man he was, is reason enough to get out and get a copy of his book to either learn more about this remarkable man you might not have known, or fondly remember the outstanding and funny man you did.

"My Story" by Jarrod Lyle with Mark Hayes and Martin Blake is published by Lake Press and available at major retailers and www.challenge.org.au