Sentences with phrase «fourth back surgery»

Woods, who is also the host of the PGA Tour event, is the oddsmakers» favorite to win the Masters, which starts next week and will be his sixth tournament in 2018 since he returned to competitive golf following his fourth back surgery almost a year ago.

Woods» impressive comeback from a fourth back surgery last April has casual golf fans, gamblers, six - time major champion Faldo, and legendary sports broadcaster Jim Nantz giddy with anticipation of Woods» start at next week's Masters.

Woods called his four - birdie, four - bogey, one - eagle performance a «bittersweet ending» to his first Masters start since 2015 after returning to competition in February from his fourth back surgery.

Woods, after undergoing a fourth back surgery last month, is obviously not in the field at Muirfield Village Golf Club where he has won the event a record five times.

But the reigning Masters champion is hedging his bets about how successful his old nemesis will be after a nine - month hiatus following Woods» fourth back surgery.

It was just his third start of the year, after spending another full year on the shelf rehabbing his fourth back surgery, and he finished inside the top 15.

Woods underwent a fourth back surgery last April, a spinal fusion, and he's been playing some great golf ever since.

Tiger, at 42, is making his second official start of the year after undergoing his fourth back surgery, a lumbar fusion, in April.

To recap, Woods, following his fourth back surgery since March 2014, returned to competition in February at Torrey Pines and finished in the top five in his last two events, the Valspar Championship (T2) and the Arnold Palmer Invitational (T5).

The reason for their naysaying, in addition to the obvious (he hasn't won anywhere since 2013, he's only five official tourneys into his recent return from a fourth back surgery)?

Tiger, playing with a fused back, the result of his fourth back surgery, is hitting the ball as far as he ever has and the rest of his game has returned over the last month in Florida.

All in all, starting his third tournament — and second official PGA Tour event — since undergoing a fourth back surgery last April, Woods could not get anything going on a course where he said earlier in the week he «played awful.»

Not exact matches

April 2017: Woods announces his fourth «successful back surgery,» this time to relieve continuing pain in his back and leg.

Certainly not bad for the 42 - year - old former world No. 1 making his fourth tour start in 2018 since returning to competition after a lengthy layoff following his fourth of four back surgeries.

I had just had my fourth sinus surgery two weeks prior and my infection was already back.

After recovering from my fourth surgery in 1994, I wanted to get back to taking continuing education courses for conventional dentistry.