Tiger Woods is staring down another round of recovery from back surgery.
With his game ailing, Tiger Woods announced he underwent a second microdiscectomy surgery on his back. Woods pulled out of three events he planned to play this year and isn’t expected to return to the tour until January at the earliest. The 14-time major champion hasn’t won one of golf’s four biggest events since the 2008 U.S. Open.
Woods made the announcement on his website and reported the microsurgical procedure — intended to relieve pain from a pinched nerve — was performed late Wednesday in Park City, Utah, by neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Rich.
Woods pulled out of three events he planned to play this year and isn’t expected to return to the tour until January at the earliest.
The 14-time major champion hasn’t won one of golf’s four biggest events since the 2008 U.S. Open. Woods also has won more than 100 events worldwide, but none since the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.
Woods canceled planned appearances in the Frys.com Open at Silverado in California and the Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup in Mexico City next month and his own Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in early December.
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