Collin Morikawa sustains injury on practice swing, withdraws from The Players Championship after 1 hole

PGA Tour victor Collin Morikawa played conscionable 1 spread astatine The Players Championship aft withdrawing owed to wounded connected Thursday.

Morikawa, 29, made par connected the 10th hole, the lone spread helium would play, earlier stunningly injuring his backmost connected a signifier swing.

"I felt good successful warm-up," Morikawa said, according to the New York Post. "Like nothing’s been immoderate signs of backmost problems. Honestly, (on the) archetypal spread (I) felt great, deed 2 large shots, deed a large putt. Teed it up, thing felt bad. (I) teed it up connected 11 and took 1 signifier plaything and I conscionable knew it was gone. It each deed maine astatine 1 second, wherever I was like, ‘Something doesn’t consciousness right.’"

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Collin Morikawa looks connected astatine the 10th spread tee container during the archetypal circular of the 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship astatine the Stadium Course astatine TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, connected March 12, 2026. (Ben Jared/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)

"I took a signifier swing, determination it was, similar not being capable to swing. Trust me, I would play if I could. It’s conscionable the worst happening successful the world."

The fourth-ranked golfer successful the satellite was taken distant successful a cart. Ludvig Åberg and Si Woo Kim, Morikawa’s partners, played the remainder of the circular arsenic a twosome.

The Los Angeles autochthonal said helium is not definite what caused the injury.

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Collin Morikawa hits a tee changeable connected the 10th spread during the archetypal circular of the 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship astatine the Stadium Course astatine TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, connected March 12, 2026. (Ben Jared/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)

"Before I adjacent took my signifier swing, it’s similar you had a weird déjà vu thing," helium said. "I took the signifier plaything and instantly knew I conscionable couldn’t get done impact. At that point, (I) called implicit my trainer and talked astir it with my caddie Mark (Urbanek). It conscionable sucks.

"It’s conscionable frustrating, due to the fact that I don’t cognize what caused it. I went done each the warmups (and) felt fine. It’s awful. I consciousness terrible.’’

Morikawa said helium has "had this worldly before" and is focusing connected being acceptable for the Masters.

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Collin Morikawa prepares for a changeable with his caddie, Mark Urbanek, connected the tenth spread during the archetypal circular of the 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship astatine the Stadium Course astatine TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, connected March 12, 2026. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Morikawa had a beardown commencement to the 2026 season, making 4 of 5 cuts and winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am past month.

He finished 5th astatine the Arnold Palmer Invitational past week, marking his 3rd top-10 decorativeness of the season.

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