Bryson DeChambeau undergoes successful wrist surgery after cutting off the cut at the 2022 Masters
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. As expected, DeChambeau has actually had wrist surgery, he announced Thursday on Twitter.
“I’ve struggled to overcome this injury at three recent events, including masters, but this is often an injury that requires surgical treatment,” DeChambeau writes. Because of the constant discomfort from the fracture, it caused me to change my grip and rotation, resulting in my inability to compete at the highest level of golf. This has not been easy for me physically or mentally. “
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.
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 played badly 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 the Masters are the Masters and DeChambeau, admirably, wants to give it a tear.
“I was like, man, this only happens once a year, and I have to try this,” DeChambeau said last week.
This could be a failed year for the 2020 US Open champion just 12 months after he toasted the town 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 I 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, a partial tear. . And then in I broke my hairline in the hamate, which a lot of baseball players do 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 practiced 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,” says DeChambeau. “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 on a stressed Body wasn’t such a great thing, and I had to learn to rest better. So that was 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.
