Supporters help Mark Rolfing stay strong in the face of cancer | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Those of us working with Mark Rolfing at last month’s PGA Championship were blown away by the way our teammate was handling his situation. Like TV viewers, most of Rolfing’s Golf Channel colleagues never would have known that the 66-year-old was carrying around a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. Only a small circle of his friends and family had actually been told.

That speaks not only to Rolfing’s professionalism as a broadcaster but to the energy he carries with him daily. Whether or not he was living with an extremely rare form of cancer, Rolfing just had to be in the TV compound, and on set, doing his job. Right after the tournament, he drove the two hours from Kohler, Wis., to the University of Chicago Medical Center for what turned out to be a seven-plus- hour surgery to remove the malignant tumor from his cheek.

Rolfing is suffering from salivary gland …