Hart withdraws from U.S. Open, replaced by amateur Lewis
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American Dudley Hart has withdrawn from next week's U.S. Open Championship because of back problems, organisers said on Saturday.
The 40-year-old Hart, who has two U.S. Tour wins to his credit, last year was voted Comeback Player of the Year.
Taking his place will be 20-year-old amateur Scott Lewis of Goleta, California.
On Friday, Swede Robert Karlsson, the 2008 European number one, withdrew from the championship because of an eye infection.
Karlsson, who tied for fourth in last year's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, was replaced in the field at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York, by American Andrew Svoboda.
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