Tiger Woods revealed on Tuesday he had undergone surgical procedure to restore a ruptured left Achilles tendon, derailing the veteran golf famous person’s comeback plans within the newest harm setback to rock the twilight of his glittering profession.
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“As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home, I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured,” Woods said in a post on X.
“This morning, Dr. Charlton Stucken of Hospital for Special Surgery in West Palm Beach, Florida performed a minimally-invasive Achilles tendon repair for a ruptured tendon.”
‘Surgery went smoothly’
Woods added a remark from Stucken, who mentioned the surgical procedure “went smoothly and we expect a full recovery”.
Woods concluded: “I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab, thank you for all the support.”
Woods gave no timetable for his potential return from his newest debilitating harm.
However the restoration time from an Achilles rupture can typically final a number of months, which might virtually definitely rule Woods out from taking part in in any of this season’s majors if his newest harm follows the identical timeframe.
The 15-time main champion hasn’t teed it up in a event because the Open Championship final July.
After one other again surgical procedure in September he did play alongside 15-year-old son Charlie within the PNC Championship household occasion in Florida in December.
‘Fire still burns’
He has additionally performed within the TGL indoor simulator league he launched with Northern Ireland star Rory McIlroy this 12 months.
But the 49-year-old, nonetheless hampered by critical leg accidents he suffered in a 2021 automobile crash, hasn’t performed an everyday PGA Tour occasion because the Genesis Invitational in 2024 – when he withdrew early due to sickness.
Woods had dedicated to play on this 12 months’s Genesis Invitational however withdrew as a result of he was “just not ready” days after the demise of his mom, Kultida.
Tiger Woods’s newest harm setback comes lower than a month earlier than the primary main of the 12 months, the Masters at Augusta National. He completed sixtieth on the Masters final 12 months and missed the lower within the 12 months’s different three majors.
Despite the litany of harm issues which have dogged him lately, Woods has repeatedly spoken of his want to proceed taking part in golf on the highest stage, albeit with a scaled again event schedule.
“I’ll play as long as I can play and I feel like I can still win the event,” he mentioned forward of final 12 months’s British Open at Royal Troon.
Speaking in December following his again surgical procedure in September, Woods maintained that the “fire still burns to compete.”
“The difference is the recovery of the body to do it is not what it used to be,” he admitted. “That’s part of age and part of an athlete’s journey.”
However, he acknowledged that he was unsure about how a lot he would have the ability to play in 2025.
“Whether my commitment going forward is once a month, yeah, I could say that all over again, but I truly don’t know,” he mentioned.
“I’m just trying to rehab and still get stronger and better and feel better, really give myself the best chance I can going into next year.”
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