Billy Horschel is about to overlook the remainder of the boys’s main season and has suffered a setback in his push for a doable Ryder Cup debut after confirming he’ll bear hip surgical procedure.
The previous FedExCup champion final competed on the RBC Heritage in April, with Horschel withdrawing from the Zurich Basic of New Orleans attributable to a “lower-body injury” and skipping the Truist Championship – a Signature Occasion on the PGA Tour the place he was exempt.
Horschel has confirmed he’ll bear proper hip surgical procedure in Colorado, a process he described as a “preventative measure”, with the eight-time PGA Tour winner focusing on a return in ‘late summer season or early fall’.
It means Horschel is not like to characteristic within the remaining three majors – the PGA Championship from Might 15-18, the US Open from June 12-15 and The Open from July 17-20, all reside on Sky Sports activities, with the timeline additionally indicating he could also be unable to return to the PGA Tour this season.
In a press release launched on his social media account, Horschel stated: “Well being replace. After consulting with medical doctors and my workforce, I’ve determined to have proper hip surgical procedure early subsequent week out in Colorado.
“It is an unlucky state of affairs with so many nice occasions left on the calendar however it is a preventative measure. I am already itching to start out rehab, get again to practising and I stay up for returning to the course someday round late summer season/early fall.
“I would like to thank my family, friends, sponsors and partners for their continued support of me. I will share positive news on my rehab as I progress and I look forward to seeing everyone at the course again soon!”
The 38-year-old sits 58th – as of Might 5- within the FedExCup standings with 4 top-25 finishes in 12 begins. His finest efficiency of 2025 up to now got here with a tied-fourth on the Valspar Championship in late March, earlier than he missed the lower at The Masters.
Horschel hopes to be match to defend his BMW PGA Championship title, held at Wentworth from September 11-14, a 12 months on from defeating Rory McIlroy and Thriston Lawrence in a play-off to win the DP World Tour’s flagship occasion for the second time.
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All of it got here all the way down to the second play-off gap between Rory McIlroy and Billy Horschel to determine who would declare the 2024 BMW PGA Championship
The Ryder Cup takes place two weeks later at Bethpage Black, the place Staff USA look to regain the trophy after their 2023 defeat to Europe in Rome, with Horschel beginning the 12 months with hopes of that includes for Keegan Bradley’s facet in New York.
Horschel – who performed on the successful Presidents Cup workforce in 2022 – is presently sixteenth on the Ryder Cup factors standings. The highest six gamers from the factors listing following the BMW Championship on August 17 make the workforce, with six captain’s picks finishing the line-up.
“This Ryder Cup is going to be different,” Horschel instructed the Sky Sports activities Golf podcast earlier this 12 months. “That is going to be not like something that any participant has ever seen, or the Ryder Cup’s ever seen – it may be very boisterous.
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Billy Horschel discusses on the Sky Sports activities Golf Podcast how this 12 months’s Ryder Cup goes to be completely different to another
“It’s going to be like the 2002 US Open at Bethpage Black, when it first went there. The chants, the way they got on Sergio [Garcia] – the crowd’s going to be that way a little bit.
“I am not saying it is proper and I hope it is a respectful crowd – however they are going to be on Europe early on! If the US facet would not play nicely, they are going to be on the US workforce as nicely for taking part in dangerous golf. It may go each methods. I feel it may be one of the crucial electrical Ryder Cups that we have ever seen.”
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