https://pinhighpress.com/tags/injury/ Recent content in Injury on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/mcilroy-blister-pga-championship-2026/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/mcilroy-blister-pga-championship-2026/ <p>The medical bulletin a major champion does not want to be issuing on the Tuesday of a major week is the one where the player in question has, on his own initiative, removed a toenail. Rory McIlroy spent part of Tuesday morning at Aronimink talking to Irish reporters about the toenail on his right pinky toe, which he has taken off in an attempt to reduce the pressure of the shoe on a blister he has been carrying since the closing rounds at Quail Hollow. He played three holes of his planned practice round in the afternoon, sat down on the fourth tee, removed his sock, fiddled with his foot for several minutes, and then walked off. The decision to abandon the round was made in consultation with his caddie and the player who had joined him for the practice. The walk back to the clubhouse was not the walk of a player whose Thursday tee time, scheduled for eight forty in the morning alongside Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth, is in any kind of doubt. It was, however, the walk of a player whose week is going to be played around a piece of his anatomy that has not previously been a feature of any pre-tournament press conference of his career.</p>