McGinley looks to keep injury at arm’s length

PAUL MCGINLEY must play through the pain barrier at the €2m Mercedes Benz Championship after a freak accident in practice yesterday.

The Irishman horribly thinned a ball and immediately clutched at his arm before rushing to seek treatment from medical staff. Tour physios diagnosed the problem as a reaction to an excessive amount of practice McGinley had undertaken with coach, Bob Torrance, ahead of last week’s European Masters.

McGinley said: “I’ve never had the concern before in my forearm and the physio guys reckon it’s just over-work. They tried to loosen out the tightness with electro magnetic treatment and it feels a lot better.”