Ryan Fox has withdrawn from The Players Championship, spending the day in a hospital to have kidney stones removed.
Fox cited "illness" as the reason for his withdrawal. He later posted to Instagram that it was hardly a case of the flu or a stomach virus.
"Not exactly the week I had planned," he wrote. "Unfortunately some kidney stones took me down on Tuesday night and then had to be dealt with surgically this afternoon. Devastated to miss out on such an amazing event, hoping to have a quick recovery and be back at it soon."
Fox was replaced in the 123-man field by David Ford, who was among the 15 players competing for the first time at the TPC Sawgrass.
Fox won the Myrtle Beach Classic and the RBC Canadian Open last year and is No. 44 in the world ranking.
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