CROMWELL, Conn. — Jordan Spieth was pressured to withdraw from the Vacationers Championship after 13 holes Thursday when tightness in his shoulder blade reached a degree he could not swing with out ache.
Spieth mentioned the damage appeared out of nowhere, maybe from sleeping in a foul place. He seen it on the vary, had his bodily coach work on him earlier than teeing off and it by no means obtained any higher.
He was 5 over for his spherical, with no birdies, when he knowledgeable enjoying companion Luke Clanton he couldn’t proceed and was taken off in a cart.
Spieth had by no means beforehand withdrawn from a PGA Tour occasion in 297 profession begins.
“I’ve by no means withdrawn from an occasion ever anyplace at any degree, so I did not actually know what to do. It simply grew to become an excessive amount of,” Spieth mentioned. “I did not see it turning round till in all probability Saturday. This stuff sort of final an additional day, and it doesn’t matter what I used to be going to do, it was simply going to be … I do not know, it is unlucky.
“I have been doing all the things proper, and I believe it was simply very random.”
The timing was a blow to Spieth, who obtained into his first signature occasion this 12 months without having to depend on a sponsor exemption. His spouse is because of give start to their third baby in a number of weeks, and there have been no plans so as to add a match earlier than the Open Championship.
Spieth has moved again into the highest 50 on this planet rating and the highest 40 of the FedEx Cup regardless of a late begin to the season due to surgical procedure on his left wrist final August.
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He mentioned he felt a tug on each side of his neck and higher again as he labored by his bag on the vary. He stopped the session to get work on it, however because the spherical started it wasn’t getting any higher. The subsequent purpose was to complete the spherical as a result of there isn’t a 36-hole reduce.
“It is a bizarre scenario with an elevated occasion and no reduce and vital factors,” he mentioned. “It is like, ‘Properly, what is the draw back if I can end, even when it is ugly?’ After which I hit my tee shot on 13, and it legitimately actually damage.”
Spieth tied for twenty third within the U.S. Open and was on the perimeter of competition on the Memorial earlier than he tied for seventh.
