After suffering a rib injury in August, Matt is off to a strong start at 3-under par through 8 holes in the first round of the Frys.com Open at Cordevalle, in California’s Silicon Valley.
Matt is currently 108th on the PGA Tour money list, with most of his earnings coming at the first half of the season. Unfortunately, the rib injury he suffered came at the worst possible time, in the first round of his title defense at the Reno-Tahoe Open. Standing 2-under through 6 holes, he had to withdraw from a tournament where he claimed his first PGA Tour victory in 2010.
He called the injury ”the freakiest thing.”
“I hit my shot, hit it really solid, and I basically went to the ground. I don’t know if I broke a rib or if one just popped out,” he said. “You go from the extreme high of winning last year to the extreme low of not being able to finish a round with an injury. But it’s part of the game.”
– reported by Pete Wlodkowski of amateurgolf.com
