{"id":433230,"date":"2026-02-19T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:10:14","slug":"pga-tour-justin-thomas-confirms-next-start-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433230\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour: Justin Thomas confirms next start after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple PGA Tour winner Justin Thomas has confirmed his next start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old American has not played since he was part of the United States team that was beaten 15-13 on home soil by Europe in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/ryder-cup\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"1ce70f90-2d84-48b8-8378-553b500ffce6\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Ryder Cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder Cup<\/a> last September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/justin-thomas\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"9bd973fb-dd3f-4321-98bc-ae548143d786\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Justin Thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas<\/a> revealed on 15 November that he had been feeling some &#8220;nagging hip pain for a handful of months&#8221; and the symptoms had worsened.<\/p>\n<p>An MRI scan revealed that he had a disc problem in his lower back. He had a microdiscectomy performed and has been taking his rehab slowly.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure was similar to the one Tiger Woods underwent to relieve nerve pain.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Woods, 50, told reporters before the Genesis Invitational this week that his recovery continues to be slow and his back is sore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\/tiger-woods-gives-major-health-update-ahead-20m-pga-tour-event\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"4a153688-2b90-4342-9183-bf2574de0249\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Tiger Woods pays tribute to Anthony Kim as he delivers Masters update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not ruling out an epic return<\/a> to The Masters this April.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for Thomas, he has already missed the Sony Open, American Express, Farmers Insurance Open, WM Phoenix Open and the AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.<\/p>\n<p>But he will be back in action next week competing for Atlanta Drive in TGL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas made the surprise announcement when he replied to country music star Luke Bryan on X:<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Drive the the reigning TGL champions and will face Rory McIlroy&#8217;s Boston Common Golf next Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The quartet, made up of Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel and Lucas Glover, are currently top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/tgl\/tgl-latest-scores-and-standings\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"bcd4b57c-7c9d-4845-97f0-c54474c975e4\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"TGL latest scores and standings 2026: Results from all matches so far\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TGL standings<\/a> with two wins from their first three matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chris Gotterup and Corey Conners have been called in as reserves for Atlanta this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s finalists, New York, are bottom of the table.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Thomas finished seventh in the 2025 FedExCup standings, highlighted by a victory at the RBC Heritage, his first time in the winner&#8217;s circle since the 2022 PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>His return to action is timely, given the first major of the year is now 50 days away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple PGA Tour winner Justin Thomas has confirmed his next start.\u00a0 The 32-year-old American has not played since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,13895,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-433230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-justin-thomas","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433230","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=433230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}