Bryson DeChambeau to undergo hand surgery; likely to miss PGA Championship | Golf News and Tour Information

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 tower left hip labrum and a hairline fracture in his left hand. According to DeChambeau the hip injury Originally happened when he started his distance Odyssey two years ago after Slipping on concrete while he felt something “pop” in his hand last fall. 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.