WGC DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY

March 24, 2022

Paul Casey

Austin Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Clearly disappointing, but you tried and the treatment just couldn't get turned around quick enough?

PAUL CASEY: Well, yeah, so when I saw Jason -- so the pain I'm feeling is lower back, left side, it's like spasms. And saw Jason in the truck yesterday and he said to me, I laughed out loud, he goes, Your glutes are not firing, which made me giggle.

Purely it's a thing when you get to your 40s. But that's I guess what's causing the pain in the spasms up the back. I've had it, I've probably had this like four, five times in 20 years, but it's, so it's not an injury, it's just, what is it? Fatigue? Could be back from still PLAYERS and the cold weather and all sorts of stuff and traveling.

Jason was really good in the truck, I mean we did everything, the back's taped right now, it's heavily taped up right now. We did the ice and we did physio and we did heat.

And I wanted to play today, but you just, you just saw it. I mean it's like, it hurt -- I was in there for a good hour this morning getting more treatment, hoping I could go, just tender on the putting green and then started to feel it on the chipping green and then couldn't get past a 9-iron, so...

Q. I mean you couldn't have hurt it any more?

PAUL CASEY: No, I'm not going to injure it, but it's a, it's a muscular thing that's just, it just hurts. So I can't injure it. It's not a skeletal type, bones out of place or anything.

Q. Is it surreal, I mean I guess I'm guessing you're going to try to give it another shot tomorrow?

PAUL CASEY: I don't know. I mean I can't go through, so it's kind of like what's the point. I hate to just give a guy a match, and that would be Louis tomorrow. I guess that makes it even, doesn't it, I give one to Corey, about to give one, Alex.

Q. It is a weird situation.

PAUL CASEY: I could win more FedExCup points, but it's like, I think it highlights a little bit the frustration some guys have with the system. I'm still a fan of you lose, you go home. But that's a whole another conversation.

Q. You're not playing next week, correct?

PAUL CASEY: No.

Q. When this has happened in the past have you recovered within three, four, five days?

PAUL CASEY: Yeah, I remember I pulled out of TPC actually, I pulled out of Sawgrass a couple of years ago, basically the same thing. Took a couple of days for it to calm down, a good couple of days. But no lasting affects.

I think it's just fatigue and, I mean, you take your eye off the ball for a split second and don't do the, you know, if it's something as simple as glutes not activated or you sleep slightly poorly or your lack of hydration or fatigue or all of the above, doesn't take a lot to have an issue.