Published By: Sports Desk
Last Updated: April 20, 2023, 09:58 IST
Tiger Woods mentioned Wednesday he has had one other surgical procedure on his decrease proper leg, which was severely injured in his 2021 automobile accident.
A submit on the 15-time main champion’s official Twitter feed mentioned he underwent a “subtalar fusion process to handle his post-traumatic arthritis from his earlier talus fracture”.
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The subtalar joint is located just below the ankle joint, and a fusion can relieve pain.
No timetable was given for Woods’s return, although the statement called the surgery, performed by Dr Martin O’Malley at HSS Sports Medicine in New York City, a success.
Woods most recently competed at the Masters, where he withdrew early in the third round complaining of a return of painful plantar fasciitis in his foot.
The ailment, inflammation of the tissue band on the bottom of the foot, had caused him to pull out of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in November.
Woods had battled to make the cut at Augusta National, where weather delays made the event even more challenging, but was visibly limping at times on the storied course where he has won five times.
Woods has competed in just five tournaments since his February 2021 car crash near Los Angeles, completing 72 holes only twice.
He played four rounds in his surprise return to golf at last year’s Masters and at the Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event at Riviera Country Club in February.
He withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship after making the cut and missed the cut at the British Open at St. Andrews last year.
There was no indication in Wednesday’s statement if Woods would be fit for the next major of the year, the PGA Championship at Oak Hill May 18-21.
He reiterated at Riviera in February that his competitive schedule would be extremely limited, saying he hoped to play in all four majors and perhaps “a couple” of different occasions.
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At Augusta this month he acknowledged that he wonders every time he performs the Masters if it will likely be his final time there.
“I don’t know what number of extra I’ve in me,” he said, adding that he felt “very lucky” to nonetheless have his proper leg.
“It has been powerful and can at all times be powerful. The means and endurance of what my leg will do going ahead won’t ever be the identical. That’s why I can’t put together and play as many tournaments as I like.
“But that’s my future and I’m OK with that.”
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