For Tiger Woods, there’s much more to worry about than Official World Golf Ranking points. After all, he announced last week that he had undergone surgery to replace a disc in his back.
Still, as the 15-time major champion is not healthy enough to play in official tournaments, his standing in the world continues to decline inevitably.
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As Nosferatu @VC606 pointed out on Last week, the number dropped further to 2,048.
When Woods came off the green to win the 2019 ZOZO Championship and cap off a Masters-winning season, no one could have predicted what would happen.
Following his gradual slide, Woods was ranked 6th at the end of the 2019 season. Throughout the 2020 season, he was only able to play six games due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which caused him to drop 35th place. Then, in February 2021, Woods suffered a serious leg injury in a traffic accident, and although he did not start an official match, his points dropped to 566 at the end of 2021. After only three starts in the 2022 season, Woods fell to 1,274th, but somehow by the end of 2023 he had climbed to 887th despite only making two starts. In 2024, Woods started just five games and was cut once, but finished 1,124th last year.
Woods, who turns 50 in December, spent 683 weeks at No. 1 in 13 years, including 281 consecutive weeks from June 2005 to October 2010.
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Nosferatu@VC606 points out that Woods has not played a competitive match since the 2024 British Open and has no plans to return from surgery, which could take at least six months to fully recover, so Nosferatu@VC606 points out that Woods could completely run out of ranking points and disappear from the ladder by the Masters in April.
And it will be a sad, sad day for golf fans.
