{"id":289885,"date":"2025-11-17T07:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:05:19","slug":"justin-thomas-announces-successful-microdiscectomy-surgery-provides-no-timetable-for-return-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289885\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas announces successful microdiscectomy surgery, provides no timetable for return \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Thomas announced he recently had a successful microdiscectomy surgery on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n

The minimally invasive surgery came after Thomas conducted an MRI due to some nagging hip pain he\u2019d been dealing with for \u201ca handful of months,\u201d which revealed he had a disc problem that needed to be treated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a successful microdiscectomy performed yesterday at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York,\u201d Thomas wrote. \u201cAnd have already been released from the hospital. I\u2019m so grateful to the doctors and staff there for all their hard work and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement comes after a season in which Thomas managed to pick up his 16th PGA Tour victory at the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town <\/a>and collected three runner-up finishes at the American Express, Valspar Championship and Truist Championship. Thomas also competed in his fourth consecutive Ryder Cup in September, nearly playing the role of hero when he holed an enormous putt on the 18th in Sunday singles to defeat the red-hot Tommy Fleetwood. Thomas has not played in a competitive event since.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The 32-year-old did not provide a timetable do returning, saying he\u2019s going to listen to his body as he begins the rehab process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for 2026, I\u2019m not sure what that looks like,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not circling any particular event, or have a specific event in mind for when I\u2019m coming back. I\u2019m definitely going to miss some events to start the year, but I\u2019m going to completely listen to my body and let this disc fully heal so this is not an issue going forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 PGA Tour season will not begin until January 15 at the Sony Open, a tournament Thomas won in 2017. The first Signature Event of the year will be one month later at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, followed by another Signature Event, the Genesis Invitational at Riviera, one week later.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas announced he recently had a successful microdiscectomy surgery on his Instagram page. The minimally invasive surgery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,3899,1202,6919,166962,44,1747,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289885","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-injury","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-justin-thomas","14":"tag-microdiscectomy","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pga-tour","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289885","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=289885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}