ATLANTA – Steve Stricker is concerned about losing strength in his left arm, and it didn’t help Tuesday at East Lake that he was hitting balls next to Bubba Watson.
He watched Watson pound one drive so far that it hit the net on the back of the range on the fly.
“If my neck didn’t hurt, I could get that,” Stricker said with a grin.
Stricker withdrew from the BMW Championship last week after two rounds because of neck pain that affected his left arm and made it difficult to hold onto the club. He had a cortisone shot on Monday — his first one — and felt he was fine to play in the Tour Championship.
The shot was between the C6 and C7 vertebrae, and he played nine holes in Wisconsin that afternoon.
“I don’t feel better yet,” said Stricker, who was told it would take three to five days for him to feel a difference.
“The crazy thing is there’s no pain. My neck is a little stiff, that’s all. But there’s just a weak, heavy feeling in my left arm.”
He spent most of his time hitting drivers on the range, with his worst miss being a hard draw for not getting
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