Jarrod Lyle's "My Story"

But Lyle's legacy lives on through the Challenge Foundation, and the charity will be supported by his family once more with the release of "My Story" - a book detailing Lyle's life on and off the the golf course and in and out of hospital rooms.

Along with writers Mark Hayes and Martin Blake - who helped put together Lyle's thoughts during the final 18 months of his life - the tagline of the book is "The inspiring life of one of sport's true fighters''.

It is an apt description of Lyle, who battled cancer three times in his life and - as he puts it in the first chapter of "My Story" - beat cancer three times in his life.

"For the record, I think I've actually beaten leukaemia for the third time, which I'm happy to say because nobody thought I could fight it again," Lyle wrote.

"But the cold, hard reality of that fight is that my body is knackered."

The confronting nature of Lyle's battles with cancer - including having to say goodbye to wife Briony and daughters Lusi and Jemma - is not shirked in the book, but the work is first and foremost a celebration of the man who was loved and respected the world over.

Speaking to Golf Australia magazine ahead of the release of "My Story", Briony was happy with the decision not to rush the publication process of the book.

"The best decision I have probably made was to not have it released last year, because it just didn’t feel right to me," she said.

"There were suggestions to get it out for Christmas to capitalise on the sales and whatever, but it wasn’t about that, it has never been about that.

"I didn’t want to put a rushed product out there, I just wanted it to be right, because once it gets out there, that’s it. It is what it is.

"So, the product that we could have put out for Christmas wouldn’t have been anywhere near satisfactory in my mind, so I am really glad that we didn’t and we took the extra time and added a bit of extra detail that we needed and made sure that we got it right."

It means the work - which can be found on the shelves of Collins Booksellers Shepparton from next week - is as close to what Lyle would have produced himself if he had the chance, minus some of his more colourful language.

"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 said 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'."

"My Story" can also be found at all major department stores, with all royalties and a percentage of the proceeds to be donated to Challenge to help continue Lyle's war against cancer.

For a more in-depth review of "My Story" see Weekend Life in The News on August 10.