Tiger Woods Time Has Come
With another surgery performed last week, when will Tiger call it quits on the PGA Tour, and what’s taking so long?
Tiger Woods and surgery seem to be synonymous.
Not a stranger to the operating theater, the 48-year-old used social media to report on Friday’s latest surgery, a microdecompression surgery on the back in West Palm Beach.
For Woods, the litany of surgeries began in 1994 when he had two benign tumors and scar tissue removed from his left knee.
A college student at Stanford University, Wood’s introduction to surgery would now last 30 years, with nothing to indicate that he wouldn’t need more surgeries in the future.
After his introduction in 1994, the carnival ride of surgeries continued in 2002, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and now 2024.
Most of the surgeries were back, knee, or ankle related, and each one seemingly would end the merry-go-round of medical intervention, but as the most recent announcement has proven, Woods’s health is still tenuous.
All this makes me wonder why he still does this.
Is his love of competition so encompassing that he continues jeopardizing his body?
In 2017, Woods had spinal fusion surgery, which was a drastic step but one he believed he needed to take.
By all accounts, the surgery was successful. Still, Woods continues to play golf, albeit limited in practice and competitively, but managed to win the Tour Championship in 2018, the 2019 Masters, and the 2019 Zozo Championship.
