Eleven surgeries, three years of ordeal in hospitals and in physiotherapists’ offices to reconstruct the ankle that was shattered in a car accident in 2021 have not been enough for Tiger Woods Give up your career and throw in the towel. About to turn 48 on December 30, the former best player in the world and one of the best in the history of sports will compete again. He will do it in the tournament that promotes his foundation, the Hero World Challenge, which is disputed starting this Thursday in the Bahamasand that despite not being part of the PGA Tour officially, it gives points for the world ranking and brings together some of the great players on the circuit such as Colin Morikawa, Cameron Young, Scottie Schefller o Justin Thomas
There had barely been any news of Tiger Woods since he retired in the past Masters, almost nine months ago. Days after his shocking images walking with great difficulty through Augusta and with obvious signs of pain, which forced him to abandon the tournament, Woods He returned to the operating room to undergo a new ankle reconstruction operation, the eleventh of his career.
This one-handed putting warmup from @TigerWoods is mesmerizing. pic.twitter.com/45CQxw2zeW
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) November 29, 2023
The operation, performed by the doctor Martin O’Malley in it HSS Sports Medicine of New York, a subtalar fusion to alleviate the arthritis he suffered as a result of a broken bone, has been very positive, as the player himself explained in a press conference before taking part in the Bahamas tournament. “I don’t have the pain I suffered in Augusta in my ankle,” he revealed.
Since the car accident, in which he left the road in a residential area outside of The Angels, When he was traveling at about 140 km/h, he collided with a guardrail and flipped several times, Tiger Woods He has spent many more hours in hospitals than in the ‘greens’.
Since that fateful 2021, the californian He has only competed in five tournaments, making the cut in four of them. He went four rounds in his surprising return to the Masters in 2022 and in Genesis Invitational. He withdrew from the championship PGA in 2022, he did not pass the cut in el Open de St. Andrews and also retired in the Masters since it is 2023.
Tiger Woods is back ✔️????
— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) November 28, 2023
This last operation was a last attempt to relieve the pain and continue playing golf at a professional level and in the statements he gave to the AP agency last month, he already assured that his ankle is fine and that the pain has disappeared. It seems difficult to think that Woods, After six long months of rehabilitation, he is in a position to compete with the big names on the circuit, but the Hero World Challenge It is an excellent opportunity to see him on the field again and to compare to what extent his recovery is on track.
Tiger Woods ???? Rafa Nadal pic.twitter.com/tgxKRsZXck
— Ten-Golf (@tengolf) November 29, 2023
“What drives me is to compete. There will come a time, which has not yet fully arrived, when I will not be able to win again. And when it arrives, I will retire,” he confessed to the media, who gave him the example of Rafael Nadal, with whom he has a good relationship, and his attempt to return to activity after his operation.
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“What Rafa (Nadal) has done is extraordinary. He won the Australian Open with a broken foot. He is a more than tough guy and more than competitive. He knows that ‘father time’ is here. All athletes face it. In some sports it happens sooner than in others and unfortunately in all sports age throws us off. He doesn’t want to see him retreat like he never wanted to see Federer leave”.
Get your Sunday reds ready because Tiger & Charlie are returning for the 2023 PNC Championship!
????️ pic.twitter.com/m48aB8jGVT— PNC Championship (@PNCchampionship) November 22, 2023
Woods He admits that the rehabilitation has been complicated (“the first two months were really hard”) but in recent times he has been much more active, taking part in his foundation’s ‘clinics’ in Pebble Beach and acting as cadi for his son, Charliein a junior tournament, and his idea is to return in 2024, gradually, playing one tournament a month, little short of a miracle after an accident that almost cost him his life.
2023-11-29 15:02:32
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