I knew the day would come when I needed surgery.”Īnd then he started having back trouble last year. “He said there was going to come a time when this stopped working. “I had (platelet-rich plasma) injections, a band-aid to keep the inflammation down,“ English said. He said doctors described it as a bone growth on his femur. His first year on the PGA Tour, he had it checked in Vail. I’ll prepare as much as I can to win.”Įnglish said he has had issues with his right hip dating to college at Georgia, which he treated with dry needle. He’d rather not return at a major, but as English said: “You’ve got to start somewhere. The plan at this point is to return at the PGA Championship, which runs from May 19-22 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “It feels like there’s definitely light at the end of the tunnel.”Įnglish has been taking long walks with his Cavalier King Charles Spaniel to build up stamina and has started hitting short irons under the watch of Justin Parsons, his swing coach. “They liked where everything was at,” English said from his home in St.