Posted on 04/01/2014 11:31:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Tiger Woods will miss the Masters after undergoing back surgery earlier this week for a pinched nerve that has been hurting him for several months, the world's No. 1 player said Tuesday on his website.
It will be the first time in 20 years that Woods will not play in the event.
The microdiscectomy was performed Monday by neurosurgeon Dr. Charles Rich in Park City, Utah. The statement said Woods will begin "intensive rehabilitation and soft-tissue treatment" within a week, and the goal is for him to return to competition "sometime this summer."
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Good.
It’s not the pursuit of the white women, it’s what he does after he catches them that threw out his back.
Because he won 5 tournaments last year. The world golf rankings are very complex. The wins become less valuable each week, and eventually roll of the two year rolling time period. A win a year ago is worth 50% of a win today, but it is still worth something. Most of Woods’ five victories are less than a year old, so they’re still relatively valuable.
It's not "hate" in my case. I'm just sick of hearing about him. I am particularly sick of hearing the fawning and slobbering of the sports commentariat over Tiger every time he manages to sink an 8-foot putt for birdie. It is tiresome and unfair to the many fine golfers on the tour.
Wow...back surgery leading to ‘missing’ The Masters. It’s a wonder the powers-to be didn’t cancel or at least reschedule this year’s Masters to accomodate his return.
Fred Couples has been plagued with back problems for decades.
I used to joke that I was related to Tiger Woods because my mom’s maiden name was Woods.
Well since I dropped Dish and commercial TV, I haven't watched too much golf lately. That being said I distinctly recall the commentators and cameras spending much more time on other players who were playing better, as it should be. I feel the same way about people that go over board for athletes like Kobe and others, but I don't despise those players. I personally find this idol worship of someone who has a particular skill set asinine, but that's just me.
Probably from juicing...
You mean the ones that say
Tiger had a great today at the Masters shooting a 72. He is tied for fourth, 4 strokes behind the leader. He had a boogie but a great chip shot out of the bunker at 12 and a blah blah. by the way, some guy named bob is in first place
Very likely true. We will wear out our body parts, over time, from over use. Furthermore, the injurious outcomes will sometimes prevail.
I thought Elin got his spine in the divorce?
What oh8eleven says.
The tourney will be better as we we’ll be spared the endless coverage of what is doing even though he’s 10 strokes off the lead.
Mounting? Oh,no, you didn’t!
lol, good one :)) how many thousand women did The Stilt claim to have bedded??
http://www.spine-health.com/treatment/back-surgery/microdiscectomy-microdecompression-spine-surgery
If this is really what’s ailing him, he’ll come back better than ever.
Jack and Arnie both had chipees on the tour. Period. I don’t get the Tiger hate either.
He’s a prodigy. The things he’s been able to do in the short time he’s had to do it are historic. There was a time where he was so dominant, every tournament he was in was a battle for second.
The hate extends to the ‘Tiger’ slam too. He was, at the same period of time, defending champ of all four majors. Not sure if Hogan pulled that off, but that’s pretty impressive.
I watched an Auzzie win his first this weekend in the Texas Open, and got a feel for what it took to win just one. He’s won 79, and 14 majors.
Ben Hogan came back from a MAJOR auto accident and won majors before they were called majors. Arnie and Jack are legends, as is Gary Player, and even Lee Trevino (Fred Couples before there was a Fred Couples).
Tiger doesn’t have the personality of Chi Chi Rodriguez, but he’s a great champion.
Oh, and every PGA player, Champion’s Tour Player, and LPGA Player has benefitted for the market his dominance created in the 1990’s. The purses are unbelievable now.
Because nobody here has every made bad decisions before. Anyway, Tiger (and Phil) are pretty terrific.
Oh, and Phil (and his wife) weren’t exactly as pure as the driven snow either. Doesn’t mean he isn’t a great champion and scary good.
I remember when VJ Singh took all that crap for telling it like it was when Annika Sorenstam was going to do a ‘Billie Jean King’ with the PGA tour. He warned everyone that doing such a thing wasn’t going to serve anybody, least of all Sorenstam.
It did serve one positive thing: It showed that even a LPGA golfer so dominant that they are going to build a wing for her on the LPGA Hall of Fame for couldn’t hold a candle to even the weakest guys on the PGA tour.
What these PGA guys do in a three day tournament to win that thing is incredible, and more so because they make it look easy. It’s ballet, with sunlight, fairways, azaleas, and gorgeous water features. It’s better because there’s no script, and no understudies, and no subjectivity.
And everybody, anybody, who can rent a set of clubs can feel what its like by connecting on one decent drive down a fairway on any muni, on any Saturday. You can connect to it by sinking any put outside 8 feet that has a break, no matter how old you get.
If baseball is the most human of games, wherein anyone who fails at the plate 2/3rds of the time is an all-star, then golf is the game that is perhaps the least. It’s played on your honor, without umpires for the most part, and requires superhuman standards of self-control just to be ‘Par’.
I love golf, even though what I perpetrate can’t be justified as golf by any objective measurement. They worst guys in the panel in Golf Magazine testing new drivers have a 23 handicap. I was offended they couldn’t find a few guys who were doing well to break 100, which would be a ‘red polo shirt’ event for me.
So, if Babe Ruth is still the gold standard in baseball, a man with Tiger’s flaws will probably stand up pretty well when he’s long past.
After all, the President back in Ruth’s day didn’t have his batting average, which is why he made so much more than the President.
14 majors and 79 wins. A Master’s, at 21, won by a margin of 12 strokes. 12 strokes. At Augusta, the place where Greg Norman led by 5 on Sunday and lost by 2.
Sorry, I don’t understand the Tiger haters either.
Nicklaus had hip replacement. So did Tom Watson. Golf can be very hard on the body.
I've heard all about Palmer, but no dirt on Jack.
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