Robert Karlsson to rest wrist injury until the Open

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Former European number one Robert Karlsson pulled out of the Alstom French Open this morning with a wrist injury and will not play again until The Open at St Andrews in two weeks' time.
"I woke up and it was sore and swollen," said the 40-year-old Swede, who missed The Open last year with a retina problem that kept him out of the game for nearly four months. "I got some treatment and the swelling went down."
But when he tried to hit some balls, Karlsson added: "I could hardly hit it 50 metres and the swelling came back."
Karlsson lost a play-off to Lee Westwood in Memphis three weeks ago, but after finishing 27th in the US Open the following week he missed the cut in Munich and then opened with a four-over-par 76 at Le Golf National near Paris on Thursday. It left him 13 adrift of leader Robert-Jan Derksen.
"I played pretty poorly and I caught a couple of shots fat on the hard ground, so I think I know what caused the injury.
"I was going to play the J P McManus Pro-am in Ireland on Monday and Tuesday, but I won't be doing that now and I wasn't entered for the Scottish Open, so it's The Open next."
Karlsson, one of the stars of Europe's last Ryder Cup side, lies only 30th on the points list for the match at Celtic Manor in October.