Latest Injury Forcing Tiger Woods to Miss Golden Opportunities in 2014

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Published: April 1, 2014

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For the first time in two decades, Augusta National Golf Club won't have a Tiger prowling its fairways and greens when the Masters tees off on April 10.

And let's face it: A Masters without Tiger Woods will be downright strange. Maybe even a little sad.

But after Woods underwent a microdiscectomy to deal with a pinched nerve in his lower back, the world's No. 1 golfer not only is out for the upcoming Masters but very well may be staring at an entirely lost season in terms of his pursuit of golf's greatest all-time records.

That's because the courses that are set for this year's majors are ones that appear to favor a healthy Woods, and they are ones that Woods himself had expressed confidence and optimism about competing on prior to this latest injury setback.

The one record that everyone (including, it seems, Woods himself) is most obsessed with is the 18 major championships Jack Nicklaus won over the course of a storied career.

Woods has been stuck on the career total of 14 since he won the U.S. Open on what turned out to be a mangled knee in 2008 at the age of 32. Bum knee and all, it appeared then that getting to 18 would be relatively easy for the relentless, seemingly charmed Tiger.



Now his scorecard reads not one but a total of at least four knee surgeries and this latest back procedure. Obviously the powerful swing that the world has marveled at for years has taken a toll on his body, which suddenly seems even older than its 38 years.

The statement on Woods' website Tuesday indicated that the golfer will begin "intensive rehabilitation and soft-tissue treatment" within one week, with the rather vague goal being for him to return to competition "sometime this summer."

While it's not totally clear at the moment, it seems highly unlikely that Woods will be ready to return to action in time for the start of the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 on June 12. His ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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