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Jodi Ewart Shadoff suffered many injury setbacks on her road to victory, herniating the same disc in her back multiple times; she once herniated it by sneezing too hard; she won her maiden LGPA Tour title at the Mediheal Championship; “I sneezed so hard my disc blew out”

For Jodi Ewart Shadoff, the path to her first Tour win was not an easy one to tread, with bizarre injuries becoming the biggest setback on her road to victory.

The 34-year-old has been a regular face on the LGPA Tour for many years, but she could never quite get over the finish line, back problems and herniated discs setting her back over and over again.

Ewart Shadoff even contemplated quitting due to the bizarre reoccurring injury she so often faced, once sneezing so hard she “blew her disc out”.

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Highlights from day four of the LPGA Mediheal Championship taking place at the Saticoy Club in California

“My first back injury was in 2015. I was in the gym in Portland and was doing the good morning exercise which is like a hamstring exercise,” she told the Sky Sports Golf podcast.

“As I was going down with the weight, I was using like 20 pounds I think, it just blew out.

“Something really weird just happened. In that moment was the first time I herniated that disc.

“It took maybe four weeks and I was having a really bad year that year as well.

“That was the first setback and then it has happened multiple times after that and it is always something weird.

“One time it was when I was picking up a hairdryer off the floor, another…