NASHVILLE — Fairmont native and PGA Tour golfer William McGirt announced late Wednesday that he had a second procedure on his hip.

The same doctor that did McGirt’s first surgery, Dr. JW Thomas Byrd at the Nashville Hip Institute, did the second procedure most recently.

“Comeback #2 started yesterday with another surgery by Dr. Byrd,” McGirt posted on his Twitter profile. “What was planned as a scar tissue cleanup turned into a bone spur removal and another Femoroplasty. Looking forward to getting the rehab behind me and getting back on the golf course.”

The bone spur pulled out his hip was approximately an inch wide.

“The bone spur he removed was about 50% larger than the one he removed during the surgery last year,” he told The Robesonian. “I also had growth on the femur head in the same spot he shaved bone from last year. He shaved that new growth again. The pain and discomfort was most likely caused by the bone spur fraying the labrum.”

McGirt last played on the PGA Tour in the 2018 Northern Trust, the first event of the FedExCup Playoffs, and had an initial procedure on his left hip last September to repair a torn labrum and femoroacetabular impingement, which has caused bone-on-bone contact in his hip that has limited his range of motion and rotation in his swing.

The 40-year-old returned home to host a clinic at Fairmont Golf Club in April. While there, he said he had a tentative date to return for rehab starts on the Korn Ferry Tour around the first of July.

As for his return to the course following his most recent procedure, McGirt said he is not sure, but he is not as far behind on the rehab process as he was last year.

“I am able to put weight on my left leg as tolerable. I was on crutches for 5 weeks last fall with zero weight on the leg to allow the labrum to heal,” McGirt said. “I expect to be completely off the crutches in 3 weeks or less. I was told I would have to wait at least 8 weeks before I could start hitting wedges again. Hopefully I can start making some swings in late October or early November.”

McGirt still has one year of exemption on Tour left following his win at The Memorial in 2016.

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By Jonathan Bym

Sports editor

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