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The Australian lasted less than seven holes at
Bay Hill on Thursday before pulling out after hitting his second
shot into water at the par-five 16th in Florida.
He grabbed a sweater out of his bag and walked off the course,
before saying that an MRI on Monday had revealed a tear in a
disc.
"I woke up Sunday and I couldn’t really walk," Day told Golf
Channel.
"Couldn’t sit in a car, it was really difficult. So I ended up
coming down here and seeing a physio and trying to do as much
work as I possibly could to get ready for this week. It just
wasn’t going to work out.
"I couldn’t play at like 100 percent today. I just wanted to see
if I got out here and it may have loosened up, but unfortunately
it didn’t."
Day, 31, won the Players Championship three years ago during a
nearly year-long hot streak in which he was clearly the best
player in the world.
He was stricken with back pain later that year, pulling out
during consecutive tournaments at the end of the PGA Tour season
with what he said was a strained ligament.
As for whether he would play next week, Day said: "It’s too
early to tell right now.
"I think it’s just rest, to be honest, and hopefully I’ll be
ready."
Looming further down the track is the year's first major, the
April 11-14 Masters.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina, editing by
Nick Mulvenney)
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