Tiger Woods has gone through a microdiscectomy to mitigate nerve torment in his lower back and won’t contend in following week’s Farmers Insurance Open or the Genesis Invitational one month from now.

A declaration came through Woods’ Twitter account that he had “recently undergone a microdiscectomy procedure to remove a pressurized disc fragment that was pinching his nerve after experiencing discomfort following the PNC Championship.”

The assertion didn’t state when the strategy occurred, yet Woods’ companion Notah Begay said Tuesday night on Golf Channel that the golf player was hitting balls before.

“I just exchanged text messages with him 15 minutes ago,” Begay said. “And he was hitting golf balls.” Begay went on to say that Woods wasn’t “ripping drivers” but that he was taking easy swings.

At the point when the system occurred and how far along Woods is in his recuperation will decide when he can return. Past the Genesis occasion, Woods may have been required to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Players Championship and the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship preceding the Masters, which starts on April 8.

Woods is no more unusual to the technique. He recently had it completed multiple times once in the spring of 2014 and twice in the fall of 2015. He in the end had a more genuine activity called a spinal combination in April 2017 that shielded him from swinging a golf club for a half year.

He got back from that medical procedure in 2018 and proceeded to win the Tour Championship that year, trailed by the Masters in 2019 and the Zozo Championship soon thereafter.

Woods, 45, battled for the majority of 2020 and on occasion whined about back solidness and touchiness.

Begay revealed to Golfweek that he saw that Woods’ swing speed had diminished to around 115 mph a year ago.

“It was like the first time in 30 years that he swung that slow,” Begay said. “And that was due to a lot of factors. Old age was one of them. But having nerve pain in your body is going to prevent you into putting everything you can into the swing. This surgery relieved a lot of discomfort.”

Subsequent to tying for 10th at the Farmers Insurance Open a year prior, Woods never verged on battling in the eight competitions he played the remainder of the year. He completed in a tie for 38th at the Masters in November.

The PNC Championship is the 36-opening occasion he played a month ago with his 11-year-old child, Charlie.

“I look forward to begin training and getting back out on Tour,” Woods said in the assertion, which additionally recognized he would not contend in both of the two competitions in California he was relied upon to play.

At the point when Woods had his first microdiscectomy strategy on March 31, 2014, he got back to rivalry in June of that year, albeit many trusted it was too early. He had the strategy again in September 2015 and afterward a third time a month and a half later.