{"id":285874,"date":"2025-11-15T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:26:07","slug":"justin-thomas-to-miss-start-of-2026-season-after-back-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285874\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas to miss start of 2026 season after back operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas&#8217; two major wins were at the US PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first title since the latter came when he won a play-off at the RBC Heritage in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My next few weeks will be a lot of resting before the rehab process begins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have a great team behind me who I fully trust to get me back to a better place than I was before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Before you ask, I&#8217;m not putting any tournament on the calendar or specific time for returning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While I will miss some events in the beginning of 2026, I want to be very smart and patient in letting my disc fully heal so it isn&#8217;t an issue again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas&#8217; two major wins were at the US PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022. His first title since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-285874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}