{"id":6782,"date":"2012-01-06T20:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/golf-casey-out-for-several-weeks-with-dislocated-shoulder\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:23:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:23:02","slug":"golf-casey-out-for-several-weeks-with-dislocated-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/golf-casey-out-for-several-weeks-with-dislocated-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Casey out for several weeks with dislocated shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Pilcher<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; World number 20 Paul Casey<br \/>\nwill be sidelined for several weeks after dislocating his<br \/>\nshoulder while snowboarding.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very frustrated as I was really looking forward to<br \/>\ngetting off to a fast start in 2012,&#8221; the 34-year-old Briton<br \/>\nsaid in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is the experts I&#8217;ve seen say I don&#8217;t need<br \/>\nsurgery and, having already started my rehabilitation exercises,<br \/>\nI should be back hitting balls in a few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Casey, who was third in the world rankings in 2009, had a<br \/>\nmediocre 2011 season due mainly to a foot injury although he won<br \/>\nthe Volvo Golf Champions event in Bahrain in January.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 11-times European Tour winner will miss the Middle East<br \/>\nswing, comprising three tournaments from Jan. 26 &#8211; Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always played well in the desert and the Abu Dhabi<br \/>\nChampionship is one of my favourite events of the year so I will<br \/>\nparticularly hate sitting out that one,&#8221; said Casey.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He missed out on the 2010 Ryder Cup despite strong<br \/>\nperformances in the previous three matches and faces a battle to<br \/>\nqualify for this year&#8217;s edition in Illinois in September.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Tony Jimenez. To comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Pilcher LONDON Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; World number 20 Paul Casey will be sidelined for several weeks after dislocating his shoulder while snowboarding. &#8220;I am very frustrated as I was really looking forward to getting off to a fast start in 2012,&#8221; the 34-year-old Briton said in a statement on Friday. &#8220;The good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}