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Thursday 7 March 2019
Andy Murray upbeat

after hip surgery,

hopes to play again

LONDON (AP) — Andy
Murray says he is pain-free
after hip surgery but likely
won’t play at Wimbledon.
Murray tells the BBC in
an interview he wants to
continue playing but the
surgeons “couldn’t give
me any guarantees.”
The three-time Grand Slam
champion says “I don’t
feel any pressure to come
back. If it allows me to play
that’s brilliant.”
After an emotional
Australian Open exit in
January, Murray had an
operation to repair his Britain’s Andy Murray
poses during the Castore
damaged right hip with partnership announcement at Justin Thomas reacts after missing a putt on the 11th hole during the final round of the Honda
Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 3, 2019, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
a metal implant. The the Queen’s Club, in London, Associated Press
32-year-old Murray says Wednesday March 6, 2019.
he is now without pain for Associated Press Complaining about rules to be delivered.
the first time in 18 months daughters, says “having “It was important to re-
but cannot do “any high- the surgery was to improve Continued from Page 17 (Oakmont) or course setup mind the membership of
impact movement.” all the day-to-day things (Saturday at Shinnecock), the role we play, how im-
Murray, who has two and my quality of life.”q The latter has not been as decided to bite back with portant their voices are
big of a problem as the me- a tweet that was shocking- and to continue to make
Olympic slalom dia — social or otherwise ly inappropriate for such an certain our players give
us constructive feedback
— has let on. According to austere organization that
champion Hansdotter ShotLink data that tracks has been around for 114 we need to have a proper
discussion with the govern-
every shot on the PGA Tour, years. It accused Thomas of
to retire after season only three penalties under canceling every meeting ing bodies,” Monahan said
Tuesday at Bay Hill.
the new rules have been they had scheduled, not-
assessed to tour members ed that USGA rules experts Some of the feedback
STOCKHOLM (AP) — since the American star on roughly 258,000 shots hit were on site for five straight hasn’t been all that con-
Olympic slalom champion started dominating slalom this year. tournaments to start the structive.
Frida Hansdotter will retire in the 2012-13 season. One of them was last week year (Thomas played three Rickie Fowler, penalized in
from Alpine skiing’s World She finished on the podium in the Honda Classic when of them) and suggested Mexico City after failing to
Cup next week, ending behind Shiffrin in three Adam Schenk was penal- that he “call us.” drop the ball from knee-
a years-long rivalry with world championship ized two shots because his He did. And it turned nasty. height, said the new rules
Mikaela Shiffrin. races, then took the 2018 caddie was standing be- Thomas said no meet- are “not doing any favors
“It’s time for me to say Pyeongchang Olympic title hind him for a tough shot ings were ever scheduled, to our sport.” Neither was
goodbye to the world when defending champion out of the bunker. The cad- much less canceled, and Fowler by not taking own-
cup circuit and start a Shiffrin was fourth. die alignment rule already the USGA tweet was inac- ership of his mistake, in-
new chapter in life,” the Hansdotter won the season- was adjusted on the fly a curate. stead suggesting the rule
33-year-old Swede said long World Cup slalom title month earlier in Phoenix, The USGA soon sent anoth- will be changed.
Wednesday on Instagram . and crystal trophy in 2016, allowing a player to avoid er tweet thanking Thomas Thomas thinks the new
Hansdotter has been one when Shiffrin missed some the penalty if he steps out for getting in touch with rules are terrible, a blanket
of Shiffrin’s biggest rivals races through injury. q of his stance. them “offline “ (transla- statement for 24 rules, most
Schenk didn’t, even though tion: privately). Monahan of which have introduced
Ex-NFL, CFL coach it was evident his caddie says USGA chief executive common sense that have
been lacking (removing
was there to discuss the Mike Davis left him a mes-
Trestman will lead best way to play the shot, sage saying he would call a leaf from a bunker, re-
pairing spike marks on the
not to show him where to Thomas to apologize. On
Tampa Bay XFL team hit it. Tuesday, the USGA cor- green, eliminating penal-
ties for accidentally mov-
No matter. Modern rules rected itself with another
are still written in black and tweet — lacking an apol- ing your ball on the green).
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — One-time NFL and Canadian Foot- white. ogy — saying that Thomas During five years of meet-
ball League coach Marc Trestman will be the coach and That’s when Justin Thomas, did not cancel any meet- ings to reshape the rules,
general manager of the XFL’s Tampa Bay franchise. who earlier in the week had ing or dodge any discus- the PGA Tour had some 50
The league announced the move Tuesday, with XFL said the new rules were sion and that it valued all items on its list of propos-
Commissioner and CEO Oliver Luck calling Trestman “just “terrible,” tweeted the rul- the players’ opinions. als. Tyler Dennis, the tour’s
the kind of offensive-minded coach whose style will fit the ing with two hashtags: So maybe the USGA de- vice president of compe-
up-tempo, fast-paced game” the XFL plans to feature. growthegame and USGA. serves some credit. If not for tition, said virtually all of
Trestman was coach of the Chicago Bears from 2013 to The USGA, a convenient the original tweet, odds are them were incorporated.
2014 and won three Grey Cup championships as coach scapegoat from too many Monahan would not have This wasn’t just a USGA
of the CFL’s Montreal Alouettes (2009, 2010) and Toronto U.S. Opens that were sent the memo to players. and R&A function. It was
Argonauts (2017). q marred by rules disputes The message still needed everyone.q