Tiger Woods had one other surgical procedure on his decrease again — his sixth previously 10 years — on Friday morning. This one he hopes will relieve a few of the spasms he skilled this 12 months.
In a quick assertion on social media, Woods described it as surgical procedure of the lumbar backbone for nerve impingement on the decrease again.
That can also be known as a microdiscectomy, and the restoration time may be anyplace from eight to 12 weeks. Woods was not scheduled to play once more till the Hero World Problem within the Bahamas on Dec. 5-8, and the PNC Championship together with his son, Charlie, on Dec. 21-22 in Orlando, Florida.
“The surgical procedure went easily, and I am hopeful it will assist alleviate the again spasms and ache I used to be experiencing all through a lot of the 2024 season,” Woods stated.
Woods performed solely 5 tournaments this 12 months — the 4 majors and the Genesis Invitational at Riviera in February, the place he’s the match host. He lasted solely 24 holes at Riviera due to sickness.
That was the one match he particularly talked about again spasms, and that was whereas explaining a shank he hit on the 18th gap of the opening spherical. He stated he had been coping with spasms, “not throughout competitors, however at house.”
Requested the reason for the spams he stated curtly, “As a result of my again is fused.”
Woods had his first microdiscectomy in April 2014, two extra the next 12 months, after which had his decrease again fused in 2017. He had one other microdiscectomy surgical procedure in December 2020 to take away a pressurized disc fragment.
Two months later, he crashed his rushing SUV in Los Angeles and shattered bones in his proper leg and ankle, main to a different degree of accidents he has coped with whereas making an attempt to play a restricted schedule.
His supervisor at Excel Sports activities, Mark Steinberg, was touring on Friday and never instantly accessible to remark additional.
“I look ahead to tackling this rehab and making ready myself to get again to regular life actions, together with golf,” Woods stated in his assertion.
He made the minimize in just one match this 12 months, on the Masters, the place he set a file by making his twenty fourth consecutive minimize at Augusta Nationwide. This 12 months was the primary time he performed all 4 majors since 2019, the 12 months he gained the Masters for his fifteenth profession main.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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