Power facing up to three months off as hip injury rules him out of Horizon Irish Open

Seamus Power. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Seamus Power’s miserable 2023 got even worse when he was forced to withdraw from this week’s Horizon Irish Open at The K Club with a hip injury and faces up to 12 weeks out of the game.

The touring professional for The K Club, Power (36) was forced to withdraw from the Genesis Scottish Open with a hip injury in July and while he teed it up in The Open at Royal Liverpool the following week, he missed the cut.

Power confirmed he had “hip issues, unfortunately” and that while he was unsure who long he would be out of action, he is “getting 10-12 week estimates.”

He said he won’t require surgery.

He finished tied for last in the first FedExCup playoff event, the FedEx St Jude Championship in Memphis three weeks later.

But he failed to make the top 30 who qualified for the Tour Championship, finishing 48th in the 50-man BMW Championship the following week.

That put paid to his slim chances of being given a Ryder Cup wildcard for Rome.

The Tooraneena man looked set to contend strongly for a place in the team when he won his second PGA Tour title at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship last October and rose to a career-high of 28th in the world rankings.

But in a disappointing  2023, he’s failed to record a top-10 finish and missed five cuts in 21 starts worldwide, falling to 61st in the world this week.  

He’s also withdrawn from next week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and will be keen to regain his fitness for the start of the 2023-24 PGA Tour season.

Power finished a career-best 41st in the FedExCup standings this year, winning $3,792,807 in prize money.
As a result, he’s qualified for all eight of next year’s lucrative “signature events” in the US.