{"id":196621,"date":"2025-10-13T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196621\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:53:11","slug":"tiger-woods-15-time-major-winner-has-further-back-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/196621\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods: 15-time major winner has further back surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods has had disc replacement surgery in the latest setback to stall his return to the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

The 15-time major champion has been sidelined since missing the cut at The Open in July 2024 and took to social media to announce the news.<\/p>\n

“After experiencing pain and lack of mobility in my back, I consulted with doctors and surgeons to have tests taken,” Woods said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I opted to have my disc replaced yesterday, and I already know I made a good decision for my health and my back.”<\/p>\n

Woods, 49, said that the surgery, performed by Dr Sheeraz Qureshi, could be “deemed successful”.<\/p>\n

It was his seventh back procedure in the past decade.<\/p>\n

In March, Woods had surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon<\/a> suffered while training at home. That ended his plans of making a return at the Masters the following month.<\/p>\n

He had withdrawn from the Genesis Invitational weeks earlier following the death of his mother.<\/p>\n

Even before then Woods had played a limited schedule, having suffering severe injuries in a car accident in February 2021.<\/p>\n

The American did not appear on the initial player list released earlier this week for December’s Hero World Challenge, an event he hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods has had disc replacement surgery in the latest setback to stall his return to the PGA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-196621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}