Xander Schauffle opens in 8-week irritating rest

Xander schauuffle Called him a “perfect storm” and cost eight weeks of golf during his favorite part of the season.

Schauffle is rEturning in competition this week at Arnold Palmer InvitationalHaving not played since the opening of the season with a rib injury, he said he actually felt for the first time before Christmas.

Last year’s PGA and the winner of the open championship told reporters in tentacle On Wednesday his coach left to renew his visa in mid -December last year, and then he began to notice pain on the right side of his ribs. However, he continued with his preparations for the first event of the season in Hawaii.

“I was left on my own and apparently I’m still a little one,” Schauffle said. “I continued training and golf and training and golf, and I’m used to having someone or holding my hand or doing something as simple as soft tissue. I haven’t got any help and I think it’s a kind of what puts my back against the wall.”

Schauffle said the pain never became annoying and there was no moment when he knew an injury, but overtime, he knew something was okay.

When he got Sentry, he thought that reunion with his coach and the rest of his team would help him correct the damage, but the damage had already been done.

Schauffle was diagnosed with an intercostal strain and a little tear in the cartilage.

He tried to prepare himself for the swinging of the west coast and the unique opportunity to play Torrey Pines South twice with the winning displacement of Genesis there this year due to the fires of Los Angeles.

“I was sitting at home on the western coast that suck me,” he said. “One of my dreams is to play Torrey South earlier in the year with a long, cold, just in the south. And so to lose Torrey twice really, really absorbed.

“I tried. I hit some drivers on Monday before Torrey Pines, some kind of feeling good. Then I tried to play nine holes and then things started to feel worse and worse. And the doctors are like, ‘Nothing is worse than hitting a harsh wedge and have everything to stop, you can make it worse.’ So this was an easy decision for me to take, thinking of long -term goals. “

Schuffele did not have much he could do to accelerate his healing, but it was not as if he noticed he was injured all the time. Schauffle said he was not usually in pain unless he tried to make a golf movement.

“I wasn’t sitting there like, oh, my Lord, I have so much pain. You know what I mean?” He said. “It was a sudden type as if I wake up and roll to grab my phone, or catch something, or sneeze if I’m like sitting in bed in a strange position. Such things are some kind of reminding myself as, oh, well, I’m not great now.”

Finally, before this week, Schauffle received good news in the form of CT scans, ultrasound and MRI that everyone turned “clean”. He said his embarrassment is minimal and he is to the point that doctors do not think he will exacerbate his damage by playing.

Schauffle looked Scheffler Scotty Return from a hand injury At the beginning of this season and is using it as a guide for his expectations this week. He said this is the first real injury he was treated during his golf career and considers himself lucky for it.

This will be the first time Schauffle has played this lot of golf in a timely manner since it was injured. He played 18 holes in the house before leaving, nine Tuesday at tentacle and 18 Wednesday.

“I have practiced mentally to convince myself that I am still in a good crazy form,” he said. “I think Scottie came back and he was not close to victory, but played quite well and put himself back in the mix, so I don’t see why I can’t do it.”

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