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Tiger’s agent lambasts reports of setback as ‘false’
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TWEETS indicating Tiger Woods has suffered a serious setback in his return from a third back surgery are “absolutely false” the 14-time major champion’s agent Mark Steinberg said on Monday.
Twitter posts from two different handles — one of them longtime golf writer Robert Lusetich — suggest that the 40-year-old superstar’s rehabilitation was not going well and that his condition had deteriorated.
“The tweets that appeared this weekend about Tiger’s health are ridiculous, and absolutely false,” Steinberg said in a statement. “It’s reprehensible that every few months someone makes something up and it’s treated like a real story.
“Tiger continues to work on his rehabilitation and we will have an accurate update at the appropriate time.”
According to the Twitter handle Secret Tour Pro, Woods was eyeing a return to golf in May at the Players Championship in Florida but that plan has been scrapped due to the lack of progress with his health.
Lusetich posted in a tweet: “I’m told #TigerWoods condition worsened. He can’t move well; painful to sit. Sits in car with seat fully reclined. No foreseeable return. Sad.”
As recently as last Friday, Steinberg told ESPN there was no update on Woods’s status.
Woods hasn’t played competitively since August of 2015, when he tied for 10th at the Wyndham Championship.
Woods had microdiscectomy surgery on March 31 of 2014 to treat a herniated disk. He underwent a second procedure on September 16, 2015, to deal with a disk fragment that was pinching a nerve, and six weeks later underwent another procedure to address continuing discomfort.
Woods’s 14 major titles — the last won in 2008 — are four shy of Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18.
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