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because we got some stuff to talk about, including

three WDs from the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

The big one, Rory McElroy on Saturday, woke up, went to the gym, as good players do,

get yourself prepped for that round.

Heard his back, had to WD.

No idea where this puts him.

For Sawgrass, he is the reigning champion.

He'd been playing the best of the very top

end guys coming in, was four under through his two rounds at Bay Hill as well. To quote Rory,

while warming up in the gym this morning, I felt a small twinge in my back as I started hitting

balls on the range before the round. It worsened and developed into muscle spasms in my lower

back. Unfortunately, I'm not able to continue. So,

what does this mean? If any of you are like me, you too have had back spasms. This happened to me

last year. I went up, paid a ton of money to go play the Cabot courses in Nova Scotia,

played the first round in 45 mile per hour winds, three degree weather, it got completely beat up.

The next day, we go to the links. It is immaculate weather. I got pep in my step, go and get coffee,

hop in my car, and what happens? Boom. Back goes out. I did suffer through the round because I had

already played. Didn't play well at that. I was fine like a week later. Rory is a finely tuned athlete, so hopefully he can

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