{"id":324277,"date":"2025-12-03T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324277\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:08:12","slug":"tiger-woods-no-return-date-set-after-slow-recovery-from-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324277\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods: No return date set after ‘slow’ recovery from surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Unfortunately I’ve been through this rehab process before and it’s step-by-step.<\/p>\n

“It’s been six weeks last Friday [since the operation] and it’s been slow.<\/p>\n

“You can’t really do much with a disc replacement, now we have the OK to start cranking it up in the gym and start strengthening.”<\/p>\n

The 15-time major champion did not say when he expected to make his return, explaining that he was waiting to “get a feel for the recovery process” before deciding on where and when.<\/p>\n

His initial return was delayed in March when he had surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon<\/a> sustained while training at home.<\/p>\n

Woods had already been playing a limited schedule since suffering severe injuries in a car accident in February 2021.<\/p>\n

But when asked why he was making yet another comeback after so many injuries, Woods insisted it was “my passion to just play”.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t done that in a long time and it’s been a tough year,” Woods added.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had to sit on the sidelines for a number of months of this year and the end of last year. <\/p>\n

“I’d like to come back to just playing golf again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Unfortunately I’ve been through this rehab process before and it’s step-by-step. “It’s been six weeks last Friday [since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324277","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\/324277","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=324277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}