Seamus Power Injury Update: Hip Forces 2026 Austin Championship WD

Seamus Power withdrew from the 2026 Austin Championship on Thursday, November 12, after a first-round 73, because of a hip problem. He told Irish Golf Desk he “irritated the hip and didn’t want to push it,” and called it “nothing too major thankfully.” So the body sounds fine. The season goal took the hit. Power is 66th in the FedExCup Fall standings, needs the top 60, and just gave away one of his last two chances to get there.

Why did Seamus Power withdraw from the Austin Championship?

Seamus Power withdrew from the Austin Championship as a precaution after tweaking his hip during an opening 73 on Thursday, November 12. Irish Golf Desk, Irish Golfer Magazine, and The 42 all reported the hip as the reason, and the ESPN leaderboard lists him as WD.

He finished the round. That matters for bettors, and we will get to it. He was one over par on a day when the leader, Trace Crowe, shot 62, so he was already 11 shots back on the Fazio Canyons Course at Omni Barton Creek with a lot to do on Friday just to stick around. Pulling out of a week that was going nowhere to protect a joint with history is not a hard call.

Is Seamus Power‘s hip injury serious?

By his own account, no. Seamus Power described the hip as irritated and said he did not want to risk it, which is the language of a player managing something, not one who is hurt.

The caution makes sense when you look at the last three years. Power withdrew from the 2023 Scottish Open after nine holes with a hip injury, then pulled out of that year’s Irish Open, and Irish outlets reported at the time that he was facing the rest of 2023 on the sidelines. Then it was his back. He withdrew from the RSM Classic in November 2024 and from The American Express in January 2025, both times with a back injury, per Irish Golfer Magazine.

He had only just got it all going again. Power lost a playoff to Austin Smotherman at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship last month and tied for eighth at the World Wide Technology Championship on November 8. Irish Golf Desk reported that the Bermuda result locked up his full PGA Tour card for 2027. A two-time PGA Tour winner with his card safe has no reason to grind through 54 more holes on a sore hip.

What the withdrawal means for Power’s Signature Event push

Seamus Power is 66th in the 2026 FedExCup Fall standings with 812 points, and the top 60 after next week’s RSM Classic get into the first two Signature Events of 2027, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Genesis Invitational. He takes no points from Austin. The PGA Tour’s projected standings on Friday morning, November 13, already had him slipping to 67th.

The table below shows the players around the top-60 line in the 2026 FedExCup Fall standings, with official points before the Austin Championship and each player’s projected rank early in the second round, per the PGA Tour’s standings page on Friday, November 13.

Player	Official rank	Points	Projected rank
Harry Hall	57	921	59
Doug Ghim	58	920	60
Pierceson Coody	60	913	62
Max Homa	61	902	61
Jordan Smith	62	901	57
Corey Conners	63	893	64
Jordan Spieth	64	875	65
Sudarshan Yellamaraju	65	837	66
Seamus Power	66	812	67

Read the gap, not the rank. Seamus Power is 101 points behind Pierceson Coody in 60th place in the 2026 FedExCup Fall standings, and that was before anyone in Austin added to their total. Six spots sounds close. A hundred points with one start left is not close. The RSM Classic is a 500-point event, so he needs to finish right near the top of the board there, and he needs the players in front of him to stall this week while he watches.

That is a lot to ask, and it was a real goal. Irish Golf Desk reported he came into the fall 114th and climbed as high as 65th. Austin, a new course where nobody had an edge, was a good place to make up ground. He was a popular pick for exactly that reason.

What happens to Seamus Power bets and DFS lineups?

Outright, top-10, and top-20 bets on Seamus Power at the 2026 Austin Championship are losers at most sportsbooks, because he teed off and completed a round before withdrawing. Refunds are generally for players who never start. Our guide covers how a withdrawal settles your bet market by market, and house rules do differ, so check your book.

The table below shows where Seamus Power was priced before the 2026 Austin Championship, from the Wednesday, November 11, board at 8:07 AM Central.

Market	Book	Price on Wednesday
To win	DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, bet365	+4000
Top 10	FanDuel	+430
Top 20	FanDuel	+200
72-hole matchup against Andrew Novak	DraftKings	+104
72-hole matchup against David Ford	BetOnline	+100

The matchups are the ones worth a second look. A tournament matchup where both players tee off is usually graded as action, with the player who withdraws taking the loss, which would make Novak and Ford backers winners after 18 holes. That is the usual rule, not a universal one.

This one stings more than most withdrawals because Power was not a fringe play. DraftKings had cut him from +4300 to +4000 between Tuesday and Wednesday. He was in the top five of three of the four published models we tracked in this week’s notes, and the top 20 at +200 was one of the most common bets of the week. He was a core DFS name at 8,900 on DraftKings too, and those lineups are now five golfers against six for the rest of the week. There are no late swaps once a golf slate locks, which is one of the first things our guide to building golf DFS lineups covers.

Is there anything to learn from it? A little. Injury history does not show up in a strokes-gained table, and Power’s recent numbers were as good as anyone’s in the field. A model built on form will rank him near the top every time. It is on you to decide how much to shave off for a hip and a back that have each cost him starts, and that kind of adjustment is the point of building your own model in the Rabbit Hole instead of borrowing one.

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Seamus Power injury questions

Will Seamus Power play the 2026 RSM Classic?

Nothing official yet. Irish Golf Desk wrote that Power still has the RSM Classic next week, and his own description of the hip as nothing major points to him playing. It is the last event of the FedExCup Fall and his only remaining chance to reach the top 60, so expect him there if the hip allows.

Did anyone replace Seamus Power in the Austin Championship field?

No. Alternates only get in when a player withdraws before his first-round tee time. Power played all 18 holes on Thursday, so the field simply plays on one short.

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