Wilson Golf's Pádraig Harrington
Padraig Harrington is considering surgery on his niggling neck injury but fears delaying the operation could jeopardise his chances of returning to the scene of his second Open win at Royal Birkdale in July.
The Dubliner, 45, has a trapped nerve around the C5 joint at the base of his neck and suffered pins and needles and loss of distance in his first four starts this year.
He will be playing his fifth event on the spin at the Honda Classic this week and confessed that he faces a tough choice if his neck doesn't respond soon after getting a cortisone injection in L.A. to release the nerve.
“I have to make that decision reasonably quickly for Birkdale,” Harrington told the Golf Channel.
"They are talking up to 12 weeks without hitting a shot. So if I go and have it done, pretty much immediately, I'd be ready to go back playing just sometime in mid-June. So I'd be in good time for The Open.
“The only issue I have is if I delay surgery, thinking I'm getting better, and then I end up having to have surgery in May or something like that. That would be a disaster to miss out on Birkdale and miss out on the [US] PGA (Quail Hollow, Aug. 10-13), as well, during the summer.”
Harrington, who has not yet qualified for the Masters or the US Open, is currently ranked 148th in the world.
Harrington will tee it up at the Honda Classic, where he triumphed in 2005 and 2015, with Adam Scott and Justin Thomas.
He is joined at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens by Seamus Power and Graeme McDowell.
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