SAN DIEGO – As comebacks go, it’s fair to count Bud Cauley’s climb back from the depths of injury a success.
Cauley hasn’t won since returning from a horrific car accident during last year’s Memorial. He’s not really even contended. But considering how grueling the last few months have been, both physically and mentally, just playing golf again on the PGA Tour is worth celebrating.
“I had six broken ribs and they had to plate four of them, so it took a while for that to heal, for all the muscle and the tissue to kind of start to mix with the titanium plates they put on,” Cauley said on Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open.