Tiger Woods undergoes surgery as golf legend set for spell on sidelines

“No matter how hard I try, things just don’t work the way they used to, and no matter how much I push and ask of this body, it just doesn’t work at times.”

Prior to that tournament, Woods underlined how he has to deal with regular stiffness because of his history of operations.

“It’s going to happen more times than not,” he said.

“The last four or five years have been difficult as I’ve gone through procedures and have tried to come back.