What is the worst condition you have been in but still played golf?

[Region3]

The tendinitis in my right shoulder is now so bad I can't move my right arm behind me or above chest high without a generous amount of pain. Had to come off yesterday after 8 but felt ok enough today to scrape it round with a 3/4 swing.

Docs on Friday for some scan results but if it doesn't get fixed soon I might be taking a break for a while.

 

[Hobbit]

Played the back 9 with chest pains. Then 3/4 of a pint and a game of snooker. A very dodgy pork pie eaten as I walked up the 8th? No...a week in hospital followed. I now carry my GTN spray everywhere.

 

[londonlewis]

Had a trapped nerve in my neck so I couldn't turn my head to the left. It meant I couldn't really swing the club properly, did not enjoy my round and we lost 3&1

 

[User62651]

The tendinitis in my right shoulder is now so bad I can't move my right arm behind me or above chest high without a generous amount of pain. Had to come off yesterday after 8 but felt ok enough today to scrape it round with a 3/4 swing.

Docs on Friday for some scan results but if it doesn't get fixed soon I might be taking a break for a while.

You wanna watch this very carefully, sounds like frozen shoulder or rotator cuff tendon tear or both. Shoulder problems have done for my golf totally partly as I played through it for a while I think. You're only going to exacerbate things by playing. It's December, why not as a start leave it totally until April I reckon and get some physio/cortisone going early or you'll end up in surgery/fooked for gowf like moi. Glad to read you're seeing a doc but I'd have thought you should be seeing a specialist, mere GP wont be able to determine much from a scan (MRI or ultrasound) imo, specialist field.

 

[GreggerKBR]

Confess that I played 2 days after a knee op. Used a buggy and played on one leg... serious hooks!
Had fun but it was a little silly to say the least!
For once my putting was better than the rest!

 

[Region3]

You wanna watch this very carefully, sounds like frozen shoulder or rotator cuff tendon tear or both. Shoulder problems have done for my golf totally partly as I played through it for a while I think. You're only going to exacerbate things by playing. It's December, why not as a start leave it totally until April I reckon and get some physio/cortisone going early or you'll end up in surgery/fooked for gowf like moi. Glad to read you're seeing a doc but I'd have thought you should be seeing a specialist, mere GP wont be able to determine much from a scan (MRI or ultrasound) imo, specialist field.

I saw a physio first and he's certain that nothing is torn or detached because of the range of (albeit painful) motion I had.

Unfortunately, unless I want to pay for it myself I have to go through the docs first before they'll refer me to a specialist. I had the exact same thing in my other shoulder about 3 years ago, which was eventually fixed after being referred and a couple of injections.

Scan results this Friday so hopefully it'll just show an inflamed tendon and cortisone will fix it.