Brandt Snedeker, golf's hottest player, to skip Match Play with sore ribs
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Brandt Snedeker poses with co-amateur champions Toby S. Wilt, left, and John Erickson, right, on the 18th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links following the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Pebble Beach, Calif. Snedeker won the tournament after shooting a 7-under 65. Wilt played with Snedker and Erickson was paired with Michael Letzig. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) (The Associated Press)
Brandt Snedeker has withdrawn from the Match Play Championship next week because of sore ribs.
Snedeker is coming off a torrid stretch of golf in which he was runner-up in consecutive weeks to Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and then won the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am to rise to a career-best No. 4 in the world.
He said he first felt soreness in the left rib cage at the Humana Challenge a month ago, the only time this year he didn't finish in the top three.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Snedeker went to Maui on vacation this week. He is not scheduled to play again until the Cadillac Championship at Doral on March 7-10.
He would be replaced in the Match Play field by Fredrik Jacobson.