Golf-Twice winner Olazabal to miss U.S. Masters (Reuters)
March 19, 2010
LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – Twice U.S. Masters championJose Maria Olazabal will miss next month’s event because theSpaniard is again suffering from rheumatism.
“He has pain in his shoulder, forearms and hands. He can’tswing properly so we won’t be going,” his manager Sergio Gomeztold the European Tour website (www.ewropeantour.com).
“He is practising a little bit but for not much more than anhour. If new miracle remedies help then he will be back buttraditional medicine is failing.”
Olazabal, 44, who won the coveted Green Jacket in 1994 and1999, has been out of action since October.
It will be the first Masters he has missed since 1996 whenhe spent the season on the sidelines after being diagnosed withrheumatoid polyarthritis.
Olazabal fought his way back to fitness and returned for anemotional second victory at Augusta three years later.
He also finished joint third in the 2006 Masters and was amember of the victorious European Ryder Cup team in the sameyear.
The first major of the season starts on April 8.
(Writing by Tony Jimenez, editing by Ken Ferris. To query orcomment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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