Henrik Stenson heads into this week's Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa with some "minor" concerns over his injured wrist.
Although the Swede has produced some sensational golf during the final few months of the 2012/13 US PGA and European Tours that saw him win the lucrative FedEx Cup play-offs and Race to Dubai money list, he has had to battle through the pain to achieve his success.
His injury also forced him to miss the defence of his South African Open Championship title at Glendower Golf Club in the middle of November.
However, he will return to action at Sun City this weekend even though he has not recovered fully from the injury.
"I have had a specialist looking at it and there are still minor issues but I am hoping to be ok this week," he told europeantour.com.
"The 10 days' rest I had was really necessary and I will go and get another consultation on it during the early part of the Christmas break.
"I was able to play through the whole Final Series with it and it wasn't so much about physical pain hitting golf shots, it was more the inflammation afterwards and the fact I knew there was structural damage in there."
He added: "I had been putting a lot of pressure on the wrist for a whole month and was getting treatment every day, taking anti-inflammatory pills.
"I have spent more time in the ice bucket than a bottle of Moet and Chandon over the last month and I just had to rest it.
"Once you are in a bad cycle you can't just keep putting pressure on it because your body can't take that. That was the case for me - I had to listen to what my body was telling me."
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