FedEx Cup Playoffs thrown into chaos as £19m title contender withdraws

FedEx Glass title contender Hideki Matsuyama has pulled back from the BMW Championship through damage, tossing his interest in following week’s Visit Championship into question.

The Japanese genius is among the driving contenders to win the £19million Visit Championship at East Lake in Atlanta another week, but he will play no advance portion within the BMW Championship.

The 32-year-old includes a lower back damage, the PGA Visit has affirmed. He has been in outstanding frame, winning the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis final week, and he was in moment put after Thursday’s opening circular at Castle Pines Golf Club in Colorado, one shot back from overnight pioneer Keegan Bradley.

Matsuyama’s triumph at TPC Southwind on Sunday lifted him into third put within the FedEx Glass standings, behind as it were Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele. And the world No. 6 was on course for another huge result in Colorado, which would have given him an fabulous chance of winning golf’s wealthiest prize in Atlanta on September 1.

Instep, he faces a race against time to demonstrate his wellness. His put within the 30-man field at East Lake is guaranteed much obliged to his exhibitions this season, but it is hazy in case his back issue will clear up in time.
 The harm proceeds a chaotic period for Matsuyama, who won in Tennessee in spite of not having his coach or caddie with him. The trio were the casualties of a theft in London en course to the Joined together States after winning Olympic bronze in Paris.

Matsuyama and his group have persevered a turbulent time on and off the course.

“It was an terrible circumstance,” Matsuyama clarified after arriving at TPC Southwind final week. “Fortunately I as it were misplaced my wallet, but Shota [Hayafuji], my caddie, and the coach [Mikihito Kuromiya], misplaced their identifications, and we’re attempting difficult presently to urge their visas back in line, and ideally we are able connect us as a group as before long as conceivable.

“We were fair on our way back from Paris. We were fair reaching to spend one night in London, and it happened in downtown London. We didn’t indeed know it happened. We were fair having a inviting supper, and Shota was the primary one [inquiring] ‘Hey, where is my bag?’

“Of course it was disappointing, but we truly didn’t know it happened. It was fair kind of all of a sudden.”

Hayafuji’s printed material was completed in time for him to be in Denver for this week’s competition, whereas Kuromiya was trusting to have a unused visa to be back stateside in time for the Visit Championship.

But those endeavors – overcoming an unsettling difficulty and winning with an new caddie – may demonstrate to be worthless when it comes to winning the FedEx Glass with Matsuyama’s inclusion at East Lake in noteworthy question.