Weir sorry, but he’s done
Canadian's season ends due to elbow injury
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This article was published 25/08/2010 (5755 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
An elbow injury has brought Mike Weir’s disappointing 2010 golf season to a premature end.
"An MRI on Friday identified that the pain I’ve been experiencing in my elbow the past two months is actually a partially torn ligament, and not tendinitis as we first thought,” Weir said in an e-mail to Postmedia News.
"While it’s not what I wanted to hear, it does help to know what we’re dealing with and allows me to explore different treatment options.”
Weir, who has been plagued by the elbow injury since the British Open in July, is hopeful he can avoid surgery.
"It’s still early in the process, but the hope right now is that it will heal on its own with a couple of months rest,” he said.
Weir, who won the Masters in 2003 has just one top-10 finish this year — at the Bob Hope Classic in January, his first tournament of the season.
He has not finished in the top 25 since February. Two years after finishing sixth on the PGA money list, Weir sits 128th this season with a mere $559,092 US. Last season, he won $2,379,422 and in his best year of 2008, he won $3,020,135.
Although he will finish the season outside the top 125 on the money list, Weir can apply for a medical exemption to keep his PGA Tour card.
"I had planned on playing some fall events to get my game where I want it to be, but obviously the priority right now is getting healthy and ready for next season,” said Weir. "I appreciate all the support from fans I’ve received already and look forward to getting back at full strength."
At the Wyndham Championship on the weekend, Weir was 5-under for the tournament and safely ahead of the cut line of 3-under until he bogeyed the 11th, 12th and 13th holes. He ended up shooting a 1-over-par 71 to finish the second round at 2-under, and missed the cut for the fourth time in his last five tournaments.
After opening with a 3-under 67 on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, Weir had suggested the pain in his elbow rated about a seven out of 10, better than the eight or nine it had felt the last couple of months. But he knew he had no option but to play this week if he was going to avoid missing the Fed-Ex Cup for the first time in his career. The cutoff point is spot No. 125 on the money list.
"It’s a tough sport at the best of times when you’re feeling good and it’s like taking a knife to you (right now)," Weir told reporters.
It has been a difficult year for the 40-year-old.
His frustrations seemed to boil over at the U.S. Open earlier this month when he said he had considered changing coaches.
"I can’t keep playing like this," he said then. "I’ve got to figure out something different. It’s time to do something different."
— Postmedia news
