Jim Furyk was hoping to play this week in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, the first PGA Tour event of 2016, but was forced to withdraw because of a left wrist injury.
Furyk, No. 9 in the World Golf Rankings hasn’t played since he walked off the course during round one of the BMW Championship last September with what turned out to be a bone bruise on the wrist.
The injury caused him to miss the President’s Cup and is taking longer that expected to heal.
“It’s not 100 percent,” Furyk said from his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. “I don’t want to get out there and play and show up just to show up. I’ve been hitting balls since early December, but I wasn’t going to be as strong as I needed to be.
“To push it and try to get there early didn’t seem like the right move. In my mind, it’s not the right way.”
Furyk was planning to play in the winners-only Hyundai TOC for the first time in five years after ending the longest non-winning streak in his career by capturing the RBC Heritage last year at Hilton Head in a playoff with Kevin Kisner.
When he has not played in Hawaii, Furyk normally begins his year by playing in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and he hopes the wrist will allow him to be in the field on the Monterey Peninsula in four weeks.
