Ryder Cup winning star, Nicolas Colsaerts confirmed injury will keep him out of competition for a month ahead of hopefully returning at next month’s KLM Open in Holland.
A nagging neck and shoulder injury saw the Belgian-born Colsaerts miss the halfway cut in last fortnight’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill that also then ruled him out of last week’s Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.
Nicolas Colsaerts hoping to return to competition at the KLM Open. (Photo – www.golffile.ie)
But in missing out on teeing-up in Greensboro also spoilt Colsaerts hope of qualifying for the lucrative FedEx Cup Play-Off Series starting later this week with the Barclays Championship in New Jersey.
Colsaerts was placed 128th on the money list to fall three places shy in teeing-up in the first of four Play Off Series events.
“I need to rest for one month, heal totally from my neck and shoulder injuries,” he said on his website.
“Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from the Wyndham and the Fedex Cup. The Fedex was my second goal of the year. Unsuccessful there…
“So I will come back in September to play the KLM and then the Italian Open.”
Colsaerts, who earned his PGA Tour card after being a member of the European Tour Ryder Cup team, is still awaiting a first victory this year after winning last year’s prestigious Volvo World Match-Play Championship.
He then secured three other top-10s including seventh in the Open Championship before being afforded a ‘wildcard’ pick.
Colsaerts has split his 2013 season between Europe and the US with his best efforts being sharing 10th place in the US Open.
The current World No. 47 was also eighth in both the Zurich Classic of New Orleans and the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart.
