Every night, Linda Martin mourns something new. Two nights ago, it was baby pictures. As the matriarch of the Martins, family treasures were kept at her Altadena home. Treasures like the major championship trophy Linda took out of the cabinet every British Open week to give it a shine.

The remains of that trophy now sit in a pile of rubble, along with daughter Mo’s gold Ping putter and all the badges, money clips and lanyards from her LPGA career. Linda, a stained-glass artist, had planned to make a collage.

Mo, 42, was over at her childhood home last Tuesday, where her mother and brother still lived, helping mom with a lamp project. She had a bad feeling then about the Eaton Fire, and after she got to her home in Redondo Beach, told her mom to start packing. They needed a plan.

“By the time they left,” said Mo, “the palm trees across the street were on fire and the neighbor’s lawn was burning and there were embers going into the backyard.”

The Martins rounded up their four dogs early Wednesday morning but couldn’t find one of the cats, Chico, who’s still missing.

Mo knows how fortunate they are to be together now at her two-bedroom place. So many families are sleeping on cots at the Pasadena Convention Center, where pets are not allowed inside.

“I’m praying so hard that it just stops,” said Mo. “It’s a nightmare.”

When Mo and her sister went back to see what was left after the Eaton Fire had ripped down their street, they likened the scene to a zombie apocalypse movie. The only thing left standing of their mother’s home was the chimney.

Mo Martin’s humble start in golf began at that home in Altadena. Allen, a defense attorney, built a hitting cage in the driveway and taught her from Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.”  She learned to putt in between the two bricks her father laid down to direct her path, pouring balls into a hole he’d cut in the carpet.

Her first golf bag, which was later stored in the attic, was fashioned together by her father out of a cardboard tube used to mail a poster, wrapped in black electrical tape with a rope attached.

It wasn’t until Martin was a walk-on at UCLA that she received her first set of matching clubs. It also marked the first time in her life that she ate three square meals a day, putting on 20 pounds her freshman year.

Allen and Linda Martin bought their Altadena home in the early 1980s for $80,000. The family of five stretched every dollar in their two-bedroom, one-bath home that was just under 1,000 square feet.

Several years ago, when the LPGA launched a “Drive On” commercial that highlighted Mo’s inspirational story, she penned an essay titled “Never Quit,” in which she noted that a memorable night growing up would be when her father brought home a spicy grilled chicken sandwich from the Jack in the Box restaurant next door and quartered it for the family.

“I remember thinking I was the luckiest kid in the world,” she wrote.

Martin first gained notoriety at the 2014 Ricoh Women’s British Open when she clanked her second shot off the flagstick at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England. Her closing eagle – the only eagle she recorded in all of 2014 – won the 31-year-old Martin her first LPGA title. The victory was widely celebrated among players as the sage and sincere Martin was a mentor to many and friend to all.

When word got out that Martin’s mother and brother, Don, had lost their home, college teammates immediately began dropping off food and clothing. A GoFundMe was started and care packages started to pour in.

“I think the love and support has lifted their spirits beyond what anything else could have,” said a grateful Martin.

Martin’s No. 1 priority right now is making sure her family and community are supported. She’s cooking meals and rounding up medications. The latter proved especially complicated when the local pharmacy burned down.

For those who want to help, Martin points to supporting organizations like the Pasadena Humane Society, World Central Kitchen, American Red Cross of Greater LA and the California Fire Foundation.

The Martin home was a place of warmth, of celebration and of refuge. The rebuilding process will be long and full of unknowns. The major championship trophy that’s gone represents a lifetime of work, sacrifice and community support. That’s why Mo gave it to her mother to keep in the first place.

"This is really is not about me," said Martin, "it's all of those things significant to her and my late dad."

Allen died of a heart attack when Mo was in college. The fires brought with them new grief as things like the banjo he used to play are now gone.

“When they’re ripped away from you, just all of a sudden," said Mo, "there’s a trauma to that.”

A heaviness made lighter, once again, by an outpouring of love.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: LPGA major champ Mo Martin loses home, trophy in Los Angeles fires