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Donald starts 2018 healthy after 'scary' heart incident

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HONOLULU – Luke Donald spent his last scheduled start on the PGA Tour watching the action from a hospital bed, but he begins 2018 with a clean bill of health.

Donald was hospitalized before the first round of the RSM Classic in November with chest pain, but he was released after six hours of tests.

“They think it was like a stomach flu that my kids had got and had gotten into my GI track and presented itself as a heart issue,” he said on Wednesday at the Sony Open. “Everything turned out extremely normal.