{"id":24144,"date":"2025-09-28T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/viktor-hovland-withdraws-from-the-ryder-cup-due-to-a-neck-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:18:58","slug":"viktor-hovland-withdraws-from-the-ryder-cup-due-to-a-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/viktor-hovland-withdraws-from-the-ryder-cup-due-to-a-neck-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Hovland withdraws from the Ryder Cup due to a neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Farmingdale, NY – Norway’s Victor Hofland withdrew from Sunday’s singles match at the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black with a neck injury. This means that the team splits the points from one of 12 single matches.<\/p>\n

Hovland, who retreated from Saturday’s four-ball game, had an MRI at a New York hospital on Saturday night. He woke up on Sunday and couldn’t move his head.<\/p>\n

The Ryder Cup said Hofland tried to warm up on Beth Page Black on Sunday, but movement was limited.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing I want to do more than representing Team Europe and trying to help us win today’s Ryder Cup,” Hofland said in a statement. “It’s pretty heartbreaking not being able to do that. I’ll help my team as hard as I can and cheer them on.”<\/p>\n

The alternative rules for a captain’s contract require each team captain to submit the name of one player in a sealed envelope that will not play in the event of an injury to a golfer on the opposing team.<\/p>\n

US team captain Keegan Bradley submitted Harris English, sitting in singles on Sunday. He was scheduled to play Hofland in an anchor match at 2:03 PM ET.<\/p>\n

Europe currently has a 12-5 lead into Sunday’s single.<\/p>\n

Hovland said he’s been dealing with neck pain for the past few months, but has begun to experience pain in a Saturday morning Foursome (alternative shot) match. He received medication and physical therapy on the course, but the pain did not go away.<\/p>\n

“The MRI was placed after contacting Team Europe and the on-site medical team of PGA of America. This confirmed a flare-up of previous injuries. A neck bulging by a medical imaging specialist.” “This morning, Viktor received continuous treatment, but unfortunately he is unable to spin the neck or bend to one side, making it impossible to play the single.”<\/p>\n

Hofland, the world’s No. 12 golfer, was scheduled to play with Matt Fitzpatrick in Saturday’s four-ball match between Sam Burns and Patrick Cantray. Shortly before tea time, Hofland was replaced by Tyrrell Hatton. Fitzpatrick and Hutton won a match-one up.<\/p>\n

Europe will need to score just two of the 11 points available to secure the Ryder Cup after winning 16.5-11.5 in Rome two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farmingdale, NY – Norway’s Victor Hofland withdrew from Sunday’s singles match at the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black with a neck injury. This means that the team splits the points from one of 12 single matches. Hovland, who retreated from Saturday’s four-ball game, had an MRI at a New York hospital on Saturday night. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-24144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}