{"id":67001,"date":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67001\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:25:08","slug":"tour-winner-confirms-his-season-is-over-after-undergoing-surgery-it-will-be-a-long-few-months-without-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67001\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour winner confirms his season is over after undergoing surgery: “It will be a long few months without golf”"},"content":{"rendered":"

European Ryder Cup<\/a> vice captain Edoardo Molinari has confirmed his season on the DP World Tour is over after undergoing surgery on his thumb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Molinari has only made 10 appearances on the DP World Tour<\/a> this season and his best finish saw him finish solo ninth at the Hero Indian Open.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old Italian kept onto his card last season with a commanding performance at Q-School<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He withdrew from last week’s Nexo Championship<\/a>, held at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, 16 holes into the first round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time, he was 14-over par and his card featured seven bogeys, two double bogeys and one triple.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edoardo, the older brother to 2019 Open<\/a> winner Francesco, has now confirmed that he’s been struggling with a thumb injury.<\/p>\n

He wrote on Instagram: “Really tough day today as I am about to go for surgery on my left thumb.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately it’s been painful for months now and I tried everything possible to make it better without much success.<\/p>\n

“It will be a long few months without golf, my 2025 season is over and I just hope that one day I’ll be able to practice and play without any pain!”<\/p>\n

He added: “I will fight through this like I’ve always done with everything I do and hopefully I’ll be back to playing good golf one day in front of them.”<\/p>\n

Despite not being able to more tournament golf in 2025, Edoardo still the Ryder Cup matches over 26-28 September to look forward to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

European skipper Luke Donald asked the golfer to return the leadership team as one of his vice captains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomas Bjorn, Jose Maria Olazabal and the aforementioned Francesco will serve as vice captains at Bethpage Black.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Donald still has one vacancy to fill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edoardo has been quietly viewed as one of Europe’s most influential figures behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He has been a reputation as one of golf’s leading statisticians, running his own company that supplies advances analytics to players on the on the PGA Tour<\/a> and DP World Tour.<\/p>\n

Donald brought Edoardo in to turn raw data into winning pairings and strategies.<\/p>\n

“Now there is only one more golf-related thing I want to achieve in 2025,” added Edoardo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“And that will hopefully happen in New York again at the end of September…luckily I won’t have to hit any shots!”<\/p>\n

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