{"id":24866,"date":"2025-10-11T18:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/tiger-woods-undergoes-lumbar-disc-replacement-surgery\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:54:28","slug":"tiger-woods-undergoes-lumbar-disc-replacement-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/tiger-woods-undergoes-lumbar-disc-replacement-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods undergoes lumbar disc replacement surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tiger Woods announced on social media Friday that he underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery to address lower back issues.<\/p>\n<p>Woods said in a statement Saturday that he was &#8220;experiencing pain and lack of mobility in my back, so I consulted my doctor and surgeon for evaluation.&#8221; \u201cScans revealed a collapsed disc at L4\/5, disc fragmentation, and damage to the spinal canal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I decided to have my disc replaced. I already know I made a good decision for my health and my back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woods has undergone numerous back surgeries, most recently in September of last year to repair a nerve impingement in his lower back. He has already missed this year&#8217;s PGA Tour events while recovering from a torn left Achilles tendon suffered in March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods announced on social media Friday that he underwent lumbar disc replacement surgery to address lower back issues. Woods said in a statement Saturday that he was &#8220;experiencing pain and lack of mobility in my back, so I consulted my doctor and surgeon for evaluation.&#8221; \u201cScans revealed a collapsed disc at L4\/5, disc fragmentation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-24866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}