Lee Westwood Withdraws from Bridgestone & PGA Championship

After playing two rounds at Firestone in +7, it was clear that Lee Westwood was in some kind of pain at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.  In the weeks leading into the Open Championship, Westwood announced he was suffering from a strained, now ruptured plantaris muscle.  

Two weeks prior to the British, in France, Westwood went to the hospital with a blood clot that left many worried about his health.  He never withdrew, and did make his starts.  Westwood flourished at the Open, finishing runner-up (albeit a distant one) to Louis Oosthuizen.

Now, though, Westwood will not finish this week's tournament in Ohio or compete in next week's PGA Championship in Wisconsin.

"It just seems to be getting worse," Westwood said after his round on Friday. "There’s no strength in it. I don’t have a deal of confidence in it, and then on the way down I’m finding it hard to hold my weight on it and then push off."

The Englishman says that the only thing he can do to get better is to rest for approximately six weeks.  How much time until the Ryder Cup?  8 weeks.  Just enough time.