Australian champion golfer Jarrod Lyle once caught the attention of Tiger Woods (pictured) who paid a touching tribute to the cancer fighter with a simple yellow duck pin on his hat

One of the world’s most successful golfers donned the pin, known as Leuk the Duck, on his hat during the Arnold Palmer Invitational as nod towards Lyle’s (pictured) lifelong leukaemia fight

‘It just showed me that whatever happens, they have all got my back,’ Lyle said at the time according to ABC News.

Woods, 42, sent Lyle a text message during his second fight with the disease in 2012 saying: ‘Just get better. You belong out here with us.’

The PGA tour player was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia at 17-years-old and beat the cancer twice in 1998 and 2012 but was diagnosed with the disease a third time in July 2017.

‘Tiger got asked to do everything for everyone for so long, and I knew that he just didn’t do that sort of stuff,’ Lyle previously told the Herald Sun.

‘He made a blanket rule … but broke it … for me. A bloke flat in a bed in Melbourne, halfway around the world.’

Other golfers playing at the Fiji International, starting today, will be seen with the bold yellow duck pinned to their clothes as a tribute to the father-of-two.

Woods (pictured with pin on his hat), 42, sent Lyle a text message during his second fight with the disease in 2012 saying:’Just get better. You belong out here with us.’

The PGA tour player (pictured) was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia at 17-years-old and beat cancer twice in 1998 and 2012 but was diagnosed with disease again in July 2017

The 36-year-old Victorian man spoke to Golf Australia’s Inside the Ropes podcast about the heartbreaking decision to enter palliative care on Tuesday.

‘I feel like I am the luckiest golfer going around because so many people took an interest in me and took an interest in, I guess, my fight,’ Lyle said.

‘To have so many friends around the world, whether they’re spectators, whether they’re golfers … to have that kind of support to go to every tournament is a great feeling.

‘It’s going to be hard to leave that behind. They know that I love them. They know that all the fighting that I did do was to get back out and play golf again.

‘It’s going to be hard but at some point, it is going to happen. They will get on with their lives. I just feel very, very lucky.’

The 36-year-old Victorian man (pictured) spoke to Golf Australia’s Inside the Ropes podcast about the heartbreaking decision to enter palliative care on Tuesday

Hundreds-of-thousands of tributes worldwide have since flooded in for the Australian sportsman (pictured) since the saddening announcement

The sportsman made a ‘final post’ on Instagram two days ago advising fans he would be returning home to be ‘near his girls’.

Hundreds-of-thousands of tributes worldwide have since flooded in for the Australian sportsman – who began his professional golf career in 2004 and played in the US Open in 2008 and British Open in 2006.

Professional golfer Greg Chalmers wrote: ‘We need a miracle for this great man please’.

American golfer Will Wilcox shared: ‘Thinking of Jarrod Lyle and his fam (sic) today. Sad news from down under. The man always made people laugh and wore a smile 24-7. Prayin’ (sic) for a miracle’.

Another professional athlete, Luke Donald, wrote online that ‘life is precious’.

‘We all take it for granted too often – seeing the picture of (Jarrod Lyle) hugging his family with not long to live brought tears to my eyes. Peace be with you, you will be missed Jarrod,’ he wrote.

The sportsman made a ‘final post’ on Instagram two days ago advising fans he would be returning home to be ‘near his girls’ (pictured with wife Briony)