Good news with Seamus Power indicating he’s playing pain free after contesting all four rounds for a fifth occasion in his six 2024 PGA Tour starts at last week’s Genesis Invitational.
Power, 36, matched his best effort this new season with a T31st place finish in suburban Santa Monica and this after a similar T31st finish in the recent weather affected AT & T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
The Las Vegas-based Irishman is lying 76th on the current FedEx Cup standings and while he slipped three places to the new World No. 107 it’s all positive news for Power after being sidelined with a hip injury for the better part of the last half of 2023.
In fact, Power struggled for much of last season with the double PGA Tour winner making the halfway cut in 14 events but also sitting out the weekend rounds in six and being forced to withdraw after two rounds of July’s Genesis Scottish Open.
Power began experiencing pain in his hip early last year but admitted he played through the pain barrier before being sidelined, and accepting the only real cure was rest and relaxation.
After four months on the sidelines he eagerly kick-started his 2024 season again in Hawaii playing all four rounds of the opening two events at both The Sentry and Sony Open but admitting he was fighting pain durin the Sony.
However, Power attributes a cortisone injection after The Sony Open as beneficial in now having contested all four rounds of his past three events, including scores of 74, 68, 67 and a closing 71 for his 31st place finish at the Genesis.
“It’s been interesting on the west coast for me because we didn’t we didn’t really have an off-season,” he said as reported in the Irish Independent.
. “So it’s kind of an off-season on the fly here, piecing it together a little bit, but getting there.
“I didn’t play much really until Maui and then had a bit of a setback with it and had to get a cortisone shot after Sony. There’s no major damage in there. It got inflamed probably 12 months ago-ish, and then I played on it and just made it worse.
“So a lot of it was just rest and recovery and then because I played on it for so long, I probably wasn’t going to recover just with rehab and rest, so I needed a little bit of help.
“It’s been great since. So now it’s really getting there. It’s not really bothering me at all anymore, which it did for the first couple of weeks in Hawaii.”
Power is not contesting this week’s Mexico Open at Vidanta but will return for the Florida Swing and next week’s renamed Cognizant Classic at Palm Beach Gardens.
As well, the current World No. 107 was quizzed on his thoughts of earning a third straight invitation into this year’s Masters..
“At this stage, I probably have to win an event to get in the Masters,” he said.
