As Bryson DeChambeau grappled with a 76-80 performance at the Masters last week, where he beat only nine players and lost to 63-year-old Larry Mize by a stroke, the buzz around him was his hand. His injured left side will need surgery. That turned out to be true, as DeChambeau’s agent Brett Falkoff confirmed Wednesday that the golfer would undergo surgery because of a nagging hand injury.
Falkoff said: ‘Bryson will have surgery on the hamate bone in his left hand. in a statement. “We wish a smooth recovery and rehabilitation process. Bryson looks forward to returning as soon as he is released.”
DeChambeau was scheduled to compete in the Professional Long Distance Drivers Association event in Jupiter, Florida, and while that doesn’t seem to have actually happened after his Masters performance, the surgery appeared to be. as still in progress until confirmation is given. Wednesday.
“He’s having surgery tomorrow,” said Peterson, told ESPN. “It’s disappointing for us, but even more disappointing for him. I know for sure he doesn’t want surgery. It’s quite sad. I hope he’ll be frank with me.”
DeChambeau did not compete in the PGA Tour event between the Farmers Open in late January and the WGC-Dell Technologies match in late March as he struggled to rest the injured hamate in his left hand. He didn’t play well at the game and then missed his chance at the Texas Open before missing it badly last week at Augusta National. He notes that his doctors have told him he shouldn’t come back for a while, but masters were the Masters and DeChambeau, admirably, wanted to give it a shot.
“I was like, man, this only happens once a year, and I have to give it a try,” DeChambeau said.
This could be a failed year for the 2020 US Open champion just 12 months after he was the town’s cup-bearer on the PGA Tour. DeChambeau has won once a year since 2016, but that appears to be in jeopardy given the situation and his impending procedure.
As for how it happened, DeChambeau said he first noticed it during his game against Brooks Koepka over Thanksgiving weekend in 2021 and then also after he played Farmer. Things took a turn for the worse from there when he attended the Saudi Arabia International next week.
“And then I went to Saudi Arabia, and played table tennis with Sergio and Joaquin Niemann,” DeChambeau said. “And we were on some marble floor, and they were just mopping it. And I wasn’t paying attention, I Charlie Brown was walking across on my own and then hit my left hip and my arm at the same time, and the thing happened. that really made me lose.out.
“That was really when I couldn’t even hold the golf club. I tried to play that week, and it was impossible. I couldn’t even grip with my left hand that week. I like this is dumb, i have to go take care of my body first.
“That’s what happened. And went in for a CT scan, an MRI, and we found out that – and an X-ray of my left hip, sort of – I had a labia majora, a partial tear. And then in I broke my hairline in the hamate, which a lot of baseball players get from hitting too hard. That’s how it all happened.”
DeChambeau says his hip injury (including a tear) is the result of speed training and also says his finger strength isn’t where it needs to be to withstand the number of balls he hits. beaten. However, he declined to say that he would change any of the ways he has trained over the past few years, saying only that he will be a little more careful in the future.
“It’s a bit of a re-routing the way I’m doing it,” DeChambeau said. “I’m not 21, 22 anymore, that’s right, so I have to be careful with how I do things now. I’m not saying I’m near some veterans here, that’s okay, but then again. , putting a stressed Body wasn’t such a great thing, and I had to learn to rest better. So that’s part of the new strategy.”
There is no timetable for DeChambeau’s return. The PGA Championship at Southern Hills, the next major championship event on the schedule, will begin in five weeks.
