Popular content creator Brad Dalke is stepping away from Good Good Golf after it was discovered that his wife, Abbie, has “a hole in her heart.”
“These last six-to-eight months have changed my perspective on a lot of things,” Brad said in a YouTube video posted on Thursday, June 25. “It’s just been a very eye-opening time in my life and in Abbie’s life.”
After Brad and Abbie, both 28, got married in June 2025, she suffered two miscarriages: one in September 2025 and one in December 2025. The day after the second miscarriage, Abbie had an “eye stroke” which caused her to lose some of the vision in her left eye.
After extensive testing to determine the cause of the stroke, doctors eventually discovered the “hole” in Abbie’s heart, which Brad described as “a valve between chambers that’s supposed to be shut.”
“But hers was open,” he explained. “There was also an aneurysm at the bottom of it, which meant it was flopping around.”
Over the next four months, Abbie had appointments with hematologists who eventually determined that she didn’t have a blood clotting disorder. Once that determination was made, Abbie underwent surgery on June 1 to repair the hole in her heart.
“In that heart surgery, they basically get this attachment that has two pedals on the side and one rod in the middle,” Brad said. “They put it on both sides of the chamber in the heart and then the heart, over six months, grows basically around the device. It’s crazy how they do it.”
Brad said Abbie’s recovery is going “great” as the couple optimistically looks toward the future.
“She’s a trooper and she made it through,” he noted. “Hopefully this means a lot of greener grass in the future for her health.”
Since the surgery, Abbie has been seeing “fertility specialists” to hopefully determine the cause of her two miscarriages.
Brad made the decision to step away from content creation “to be home more for Abbie and for our future family.”
“I will be completely honest and raw with you right now. I felt like these last six-to-eight months, I have been a very, very bad husband,” he admitted, pointing to Abbie routinely having up to three doctor’s appointments per week.
“I have missed a lot of those,” he continued. “I was on the road, I was traveling while she’s going at 6 a.m. for a doctor’s appointment and then she has to go and do it all over again at 7 a.m. She has to hear a lot of news without me there, without me there holding her hand. Hearing a lot of bad news, too. There was not a whole lot of good news that happened in the start of this year.”
Brad confirmed that Abbie was “not asking me to do this,” calling the choice to step away from Good Good “my decision.”
“Do not get mad at her for any of this,” he urged. “I just feel like I didn’t live up to par when it comes to being a husband for Abbie through this whole process. That kills me inside. I hate it. I don’t want to be that way anymore. I want to be here for her.”
