Golfer Andrea Pavan has pulled out of this week’s DP World Tour event in South Africa after he was hospitalized following a fall down an elevator shaft.<\/p>\n
According to Ryan French of Monday Q Info<\/a> and Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine<\/a>, the 36-year-old two-time DP World Tour winner fell multiple floors in a building where he was staying after the doors of the elevator opened, but no cab was there and Pavan stepped through.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Rome, Italy, native reportedly needed “extensive” surgeries on Wednesday night for his injuries, which included his shoulder and back.<\/p>\n \u201cBy all accounts, he\u2019s in good spirits, thankful to be alive and FaceTiming with his kids,\u201d J.T. Higgins, Pavan’s college coach at Texas A&M, told Romine.<\/p>\n The DP World Tour confirmed Pavan’s withdrawal due to injury, but did not offer specifics.<\/p>\n Pavan has eight total wins in his professional career, the last coming at the 2019 BMW International Open in Germany where he beat Matt Fitzpatrick in a playoff. While at Texas A&M, he was a part of the program’s 2009 NCAA championship team. He has played in three majors, including last year’s U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golfer Andrea Pavan has pulled out of this week’s DP World Tour event in South Africa after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[225703,225706,225704,13037,225705,427,18609,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-492581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-andrea-pavan","9":"tag-bmw-international-open","10":"tag-brentley-romine","11":"tag-dp-world-tour","12":"tag-elevator-shaft","13":"tag-golf","14":"tag-matt-fitzpatrick","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}