It's strange how players can come to be in such different instances, in particular while the ones two players are buddies and their games were connected for goodbye.
Such is that this week's alternate of fortune for 2 South Africans -- Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen. Both burst onto the scene at across the same time. Both have received majors -- Louis gained the 2010 Open Championship, Charl the 2011 Masters. But their careers seem to be out of section currently.
This week, after suffering to discover some consistency in his play, Charl has kicked it into gear on the Porsche European Open in Germany. And "kicked it into tools" is the right phrase, not just due to the fact Porsche is the identify sponsor but because the leaderboard seems like the gamers are racing. The cut became -3, with a real jam of players at -3 and -four, at the same time as the three leaders are simplest at -10.
Charl is one of the leaders. Here's what he informed ET commentator Jay Townsend after the round:
Ah yes, those setting issues. It looks like everyone has them, would not it?
Everybody except Louis. He's been putting lighting fixtures-out this year, even posting consecutive runner-up finishes at the US Open and Open Championship this year, and appeared to be on point for an excellent TOUR Championship... However he's began having physical troubles once more. PGATOUR.Com talked to him approximately this turn of occasions.
Tuesday Louis discovered a lump in his left wrist. It turned out to be something called a ganglion cyst, which isn't cancerous and hospital personnel near the East Lake course were able to drain it. He hoped that would solve the problem, and it did...
The wrist hassle, that is. He had been having some hamstring issues in his proper leg on the grounds that Sunday, and at some point of his first round Thursday it have become bad sufficient that it started affecting his swing. After 13 holes he withdrew, possibly hoping -- like Jim Furyk, who withdrew with right wrist ache closing week -- that he can get nicely in time for the Presidents Cup in a couple of weeks.
It's accurate to see Charl scoring nicely again; it is been nearly years in view that he final received a event and it'd be satisfactory to peer him lower back within the winner's circle. And it's been right to look Louis lower back in competition, given the injuries he's faced sporadically over the previous couple of years.
But it certain seems as though the South African duo just can't trap a wreck these days. Maybe Charl can trade their luck with a win this week and some of it will rub off on Louis.
We can all desire.
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