Golf champion Tiger Woods on Wednesday revealed that he has had another surgery on his lower right leg, which was injured in a 2021 car accident that he had.
Woods, 15-time golf champion took to his official Twitter feed to announce he has undergone a “subtalar fusion procedure to address his post-traumatic arthritis from his previous talus fracture”.
The subtalar joint is located just below the ankle joint, and a fusion can relieve pain.
No timetable has been given for Woods’s return, although the statement called the surgery, performed by Dr. Martin O’Malley at HSS Sports Medicine in New York City, a success.
Woods most recently competed at the Masters, where he withdrew early in the third round complaining of a return of painful plantar fasciitis in his foot.
News About Nigeria gathered that the ailment, inflammation of the tissue band on the bottom of the foot, had caused him to pull out of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in November.
Woods had battled to make the cut at Augusta National, where weather delays made the event even more challenging, but was visibly limping at times on the storied course where he has won five times.
He played four rounds in his surprise return to golf at last year’s Masters and at the Genesis Invitational PGA Tour event at Riviera Country Club in February.
He withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship after making the cut and missed the cut at the British Open at St. Andrews last year.
Woods has competed in just five tournaments since his February 2021 car crash near Los Angeles, completing 72 holes only twice, sources say.
