LOS ANGELES – A week that began with a painful injury and an even more excruciating surgery on his left index finger took a better turn on Thursday for Tyler McCumber.
McCumber slammed his finger in a sliding window at his hotel on Tuesday and was advised by the tournament doctor that it would be too painful for him to play. But there was an alternative.
“Fortunately, the surgeon on site, the emergency surgeon is a hand specialist,” McCumber said. “He said we can do a procedure where we just rip off the nail, but half of the nail is still intact.