Eye injury forces Perry to withdraw

Tennessean News Services • August 8, 2008 BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Kenny Perry, playing in a major for the first time this year, withdrew from the PGA Championship after an opening-round 79 because of an eye injury. Perry, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, is ranked 17th in the world and has clinched a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team. "I have had Lasik surgery and have been wearing Lasik lenses which have a hard center and flatten out at the end," the Franklin, Ky., golfer said after withdrawing Thursday. "I had got some infection in there and my doctor said that I needed to let my eyes rest by keeping the contacts out. He gave me cortisone and steroids which were very painful and it was annoying and difficult to be to trying to fight a tough golf course and have my eye aggravating me at the same time." Perry... [read full story]