Bryson DeChambeau is opting for surgery on his injured left hand The news, which was first reported by Morning Read’s Bob Harig, was confirmed by DeChambeau’s agent, Brett Falkoff, to Golf Digest.

“Bryson will undergo surgery on his hamate bone in his left hand,” Falkoff said. “We look forward to a smooth recovery and rehab process. Bryson looks forward to returning as soon as he is cleared to do so.”

At last week Masters, DeChambeau revealed he suffered a torn left hip labrum and a hairline fracture in his left hand. According to DeChambeau the hip injury originally happened when he began his distance odyssey two years ago after slipping on concrete while he felt something “pop” in his hand last autumn. Both injuries were aggravated at the Saudi International during a ping-pong match against Sergio Garcia and Joaquin Niemann.

“We were on some marble floors, and they just wiped it,” DeChambeau explained at Augusta National. “And me not paying attention, I ‘Charlie Brown’d’ myself and went horizontal and then hit my left hip and my hand at the same time, and that really just took me out. That’s really when it just got to the point where I couldn’t even grip the golf club. I tried to play that week, and it was impossible. I was not even gripping with my left hand that week. I was like, this is dumb, I have to go take care of my body first and get it right.”

DeChambeau went on to explain that doctors advised him to sit out for four months; instead DeChambeau returned in less than two in hopes to make a run at the Masters.

However, since DeChambeau returned from injury the results have not been promising. He was eliminated in the round-robin stage of the WGC-Dell Match Play, missed the cut at the Valero Texas Open by six shots and turned in a 76 and 80 to miss the weekend at the Masters. Things weren’t much better earlier in the year, finishing a distant T-25 in the limited-field Sentry Tournament of Champions and missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Recover from surgery on the hamate bone hovers around 10-to-12 weeks, a timeline that will likely force DeChambeau out of May’s PGA Championship and puts the US Open in doubt.

DeChambeau has fallen to No. 19 in the Official World Golf Ranking and enters the week 217th in the FedEx Cup standings.

“I made attempts to play through this injury at three recent events, including the Masters, but this is typically an injury that requires surgical treatment,” DeChambeau wrote on Instagram. “Through continued discomfort from the fracture, it has caused me to alter my grip and swing, resulting in my inability to compete at golf’s highest level. This has not been easy physically and mentally for me.”

Last week at the Masters, DeChambeau, 28, said that he had a torn hairline fracture in his left hand as well as a torn left hip labrum. The hip injury started to bother him when he started to train for distance gains two years ago, he said. The hand injury, DeChambeau said, came last fall when he slipped on concrete and heard something “pop” in his hand.

“For now, I will be taking the appropriate time needed to rest and recover from this procedure and look forward to competing at the highest level within the next two months,” DeChambeau said.

This guarantees that DeChambeau will miss the PGA Championship next month at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The US Open, which DeChambeau won in 2020 at Winged Foot, is June 16-19 at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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By Joel Beall
Brooks Koepka has been a dynamo at the majors the last few years, posting finishes of T-13 or better in eight of his last nine appearances. Unfortunately for the reigning U.S. Open champion, it doesn’t appear he’ll bring that firepower to Augusta National in two weeks. Craig Dolch of Treasure Coast Newspapers reports that Koepka will miss the 2018 Masters due to a nagging wrist injury.

“They said I would be about 80 percent, but I can’t play 80 percent,” Koepka told Dolch on Tuesday. “I either have to go full bore or not at all. I don’t want to risk getting it re-injured and then be out a long time.”

Koepka has been sidelined since late January with a partially torn tendon, an ailment that was expected to keep him sidelined for 10 weeks. The 27-year-old told Dolch he just started hitting putts and chips this week. Prior to sitting out, Koepka had finished last at the Hero World Challenge and Tournament of Champions.

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