{"id":198158,"date":"2025-10-13T23:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198158\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:43:12","slug":"tiger-woods-golf-return-unclear-as-he-undergoes-more-surgery-in-latest-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198158\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods’ golf return unclear as he undergoes more surgery in latest setback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods announced that he underwent surgery for a collapsed disc in his spine.<\/p>\n

The 15-time major winner<\/a> said on social media that he had lumbar disk replacement surgery on Friday after experiencing pain in his lower back.<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy reveals the five-word message he got from Tiger Woods after winning the Masters<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old also added that the surgery had been deemed a success.<\/p>\n

A statement on Woods’ X account said: “After experiencing pain and lack of mobility in my back, I consulted with Doctors and Surgeons to have tests taken.<\/p>\n

“The scans determined that I had a collapsed disc in L4\/5, disc fragments and a compromised spinal canal. 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

“On Friday, Tiger underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery in his L4\/5 Lumbar spine for lower back symptoms.<\/p>\n

“The surgery was deemed successful and performed by Dr. Sheeraz Qureshi and his team at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.”<\/p>\n

This was the second time Woods has undergone back surgery in just over a year.<\/p>\n

He had an operation on his lumbar spine in September 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Woods’ return to the course is currently unknown.<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods’ injury issues<\/p>\n

The former world number one has encountered many injury problems over the last decade.<\/p>\n

He has undergone various back and knee surgeries in recent years, but has barely played since a serious car crash in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Woods’ car hit a curb, a tree, and rolled over several times at high speed in 2021Credit: GETTY\"Woods<\/a><\/p>\n

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Woods has played just 11 events since 2021<\/p>\n

Woods said he was ‘lucky to be alive’ after his vehicle rolled and crashed into a ditch in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

He suffered multiple leg injuries and there were fears he would never play again.<\/p>\n

It took him nine months before he was swinging a golf club again.<\/p>\n

He ruptured his left Achilles<\/a> while training and practising at home in March this year.<\/p>\n

Woods has not featured since The Open Championship at Royal Troon in 2024 and planned to make a comeback for The Genesis Invitational earlier this year but pulled out due to the death of his mother the week before.<\/p>\n

His only golfing appearances this year have been in the new TGL indoor competition.<\/p>\n

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Woods has often been seen supporting son Charlie on the courseCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old is currently ranked No. 2001 in the world and has played just 11 events since that car crash in February 2021.<\/p>\n

He is more often seen as a spectator supporting his son Charlie.<\/p>\n

TGL’s second second will officially kick-off on December 28 and that may be the next time we see him with a golf club in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods announced that he underwent surgery for a collapsed disc in his spine. The 15-time major winner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,6670,101,10509,676,8937,86249,86248,86250,86251,56,54,55,51283],"class_list":["post-198158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-golf-news","tag-sports","tag-the-masters","tag-the-open","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tiger-woods-injury","tag-tiger-woods-news","tag-tiger-woods-return","tag-tiger-woods-surgery","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198158","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=198158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}