Seamus Power WDs from PGA Tour event after making quadruple bogey
Seamus Power decided to call it a day during the second round of the RSM Classic on the PGA Tour owing to a back injury.
Irish professional golfer Seamus Power was forced to withdraw during the second round of the RSM Classic on the PGA Tour with a back injury.
Power carded an opening round of 4-over 76 on the Plantation Course at the final event of the FedEx Cup Fall season and faced a battle to make the cut.
He played the first three holes of his second round at the Seaside Course in level par, thanks to one bogey, one birdie and one par.
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But he made a devastating quadruple bogey eight on the par-4 13th.
After that, he decided to call it a day.
The official PGA Tour communications team confirmed Power then decided to withdraw, citing a back injury.
Shot tracking suggested Power hit his tee shot on the 13th out of bounds and his reload was equally poor, leading to a penalty drop.
With his fourth stroke, Power chipped his ball back into the fairway but then missed the green left.
He tapped in from 3ft 9ins for a quad then trudged off the green.
Power, 37, is a two-time PGA Tour winner.
His most recent victory came at the 2022 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
He was sidelined for several months in 2024 with a hip injury.
Of that injury, he previously told the Irish Examiner: "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 wasn't the only player to withdraw on day two.
Former U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III also called it a day, citing a wrist injury.
The RSM Classic is the final event of the season.
A host of golfers are fighting to secure their cards for the 2024-2025 season, which begins in Hawaii next January.
Only the top 125 players in the rankings secure their cards.
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