46-Year-Old Tiger Woods’ Scary Surgery Count Underlines the Amount of Pain He’s Played Through His Entire Career

Tiger Woods has worked very hard to achieve the milestones he has as of today. The golf legend has won 15 major championships in his career and has made tons of other records. However, these victories have cost him a lot of pain, literally. The golfer is one of the few players to have gone through multiple injuries. But how many surgeries has Woods undergone?

Tiger Woods has suffered several injuries

Tiger Woods is a strong man. Pain and injuries are not something new for him. Fans still remember the time he won the US Open in 2008 with a twice-fractured left leg. Woods has been suffering from back pain and injuries for the longest time. And there was a phase when the legendary golfer wasn’t even sure if he would ever be able to play golf again.

Most of the surgeries have been performed on Woods’ knees and back. One of the deadliest injuries that Woods experienced was the February car crash, which almost cost him his leg. But it is nothing less than a miracle to see Woods return from each of these injuries and play professional golf again.

How many surgeries has Woods gone through?

Woods has been very private about his injuries and the procedures he underwent to get himself fixed. However, there have been times when he talked about the surgeries he had undergone. Here are some of the surgeries he had to go through in his career.

Woods was just 20 years old when the doctors removed two benign tumors and scar tissue from his left knee. And later in 2002, he again faced issues with his left knee and had to undergo surgery to remove benign cysts from there. Woods again ruptured his left knee in 2007 while running during the British Open, but was able to continue playing for a few weeks.

Soon in 2008, the golfer had to get his left knee operated on to repair cartilage damage. He was still in visible pain when he won the US Open the same year. Right after the tournament, Woods went on to get his left ACL repaired extracting a tendon from his right thigh. But little did he know that the same year would end with him injuring his right Achilles tendon while jogging. Another injury, another surgery.

A big surgery that Woods went through was in 2014 when he withdrew from the Honda Classic due to consistent back pain and spasms. The golfer had to undergo surgery on a pinched nerve. He even had to withdraw from the Arnold Palmer Invitational the same year.

Did Woods go through surgeries for his spine?

Woods withdrew from the Farmers Insurance match in 2015 due to one more back injury. He said, “A bone kind of popped out, and the joint kind of went out of place, but I put it back in,”. The golf star had to go through two microdiscectomy surgeries on his back. October came with another back surgery for him to relieve him from the undying pain.

But that was not all. In 2017, Woods had a spinal fusion, which was his fourth back surgery. It was a successful procedure and Woods managed to return and win the 2019 Masters title. After another micro-surgery in January 2021 to remove a bone fragment.

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Woods had met with an unfortunate yet disastrous car accident in February 2021, and he was stuck in his vehicle for a long time before being rescued. The doctors said that Woods had almost lost his right leg. His right leg and ankle were completely shattered and required immediate surgery.

“Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins.” Dr. Anish Mahajan, CMO said. Woods has survived all these conditions with his bold heart and never-giving-up attitude. He has still not fully recovered from the pain he had in his right leg, but he’s working very hard to get back to his best form.

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