{"id":26705,"date":"2025-11-15T01:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/justin-thomas-undergoes-surgery-to-relieve-back-and-hip-pain-missed-the-start-of-26-years\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:42:39","slug":"justin-thomas-undergoes-surgery-to-relieve-back-and-hip-pain-missed-the-start-of-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/justin-thomas-undergoes-surgery-to-relieve-back-and-hip-pain-missed-the-start-of-26-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas undergoes surgery to relieve back and hip pain. Missed the start of 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two-time major champion Justin Thomas announced Friday that he will undergo back surgery and miss the start of the 2026 PGA Tour season.<\/p>\n

“Life update. For the past few months, I have been suffering from persistent pain in my hip,” Thomas said in a statement posted on social media. \u201cAfter some time off and my symptoms worsening, an MRI scan revealed a disc problem that required treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas said he underwent a successful microdiscectomy at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery on Thursday and has been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old, ranked No. 8 in the Official World Golf Rankings, won the RBC Heritage last season (his 18th on tour) and has eight top-10 finishes in 2025.<\/p>\n

In addition to competing in the Hero World Challenge from Dec. 4-7, Thomas was also scheduled to participate in the reboot of the Skins Game on the Friday after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

“The next few weeks will be a lot of rest before the rehabilitation process begins,” Thomas said. \u201cI have a great team and I have full trust in them to get me back better than before!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thomas did not give a target date for his return to competitive golf, but confirmed he would miss events in early 2026.<\/p>\n

The typical recovery timetable from a microdiscectomy, a surgery that Thomas’ friend Tiger Woods underwent multiple times, is three months.<\/p>\n

Woods underwent three microdiscectomies in 2014 and 2015, another in 2020, and another in 2024. Last month, Woods announced that he had undergone disc replacement surgery.<\/p>\n

“I want to heal very wisely and patiently so that the disc doesn’t become a problem again,” Thomas said. “I’m very fortunate that golf allows me to play at a high level for so long. And that’s what I’m trying to do. This procedure will allow me to play injury-free in the future.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two-time major champion Justin Thomas announced Friday that he will undergo back surgery and miss the start of the 2026 PGA Tour season. “Life update. For the past few months, I have been suffering from persistent pain in my hip,” Thomas said in a statement posted on social media. \u201cAfter some time off and my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26705","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\/26705","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=26705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}