Convinced that he would be able to return 4 weeks after his retirement from Saudi International, Bryson DeChambeau had to face the facts on Monday evening and announced that his wrist injury was still preventing him from playing. He will therefore not be able to defend his title at Bay Hill this week and his participation in the Players in 10 days in Ponte Vedra is still uncertain.
196th in the FedEx Cup while 40% of the tournaments of the 2022 PGA Tour season have already been played, the least we can say is that Bryson DeChambeau is having a complicated start to the year.
28th out of 35 at the Tournament of Champions, forfeited at the Sony Open, diminished at the Farmers Insurance Open and then forced to retire after 18 holes at Saudi International, the American hoped to make his comeback at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week but unfortunately he will still have to bite his brakes.
I don’t want to take the risk of aggravating my injury and not being 100% the rest of the season. I don’t want to rush my return and I will still wait.
Indeed he has not fully recovered from a wrist injury that has been crippling him for 2 months.
Monday in a message on Twitter, Bryson DeChambeau therefore announced that he did not prefer to take the risk of worsening his condition and that, consequently, he would not line up at the start of the tournament in which he imposed himself. last year, his last victory on all circuits.
An update on API. pic.twitter.com/fX0OgY7xF4
— Bryson DeChambeau (@b_dechambeau) February 28, 2022
” Hello everyone. Well, I hit a lot of balls on the simulator and worked hard on my game and my recovery, but I had to make a difficult decision: I still have a lot of work to do to put everything back in order,” he explains. .
“I just feel like it’s too early to get back to 100%. I think I’m only 90% and I don’t want to risk aggravating my injury and not be 100% the rest of the season. I don’t want to rush my return and I will still wait. It’s a tough decision I have to make, but I won’t be playing this week.”
The dotted Players
It’s another blow for DeChambeau who did the show last year at Bay Hill, including trying several times to play over the water hazard of par 5 hole n°6.
“We’ll see if I can play at The Players. It’s one of the hardest times of my career, as I said in my last post, but there’s not much I can do. Even though I can hit golf balls, it’s not totally comfortable, so it’s a bit frustrating.”
©Twitter/@b_dechambeau
