Tiger Woods on Wednesday revealed that he has had another surgery on his lower right leg, which was severely injured in his 2021 car accident.
A post on the 15-time major champion’s official Twitter feed said he underwent a “subtalar fusion procedure to address his post-traumatic arthritis from his previous talus fracture”.
The subtalar joint is located just below the ankle joint, and a fusion can relieve pain.
In statement, Wood is yet to give time for his come back, although the statement confirmed the surgery, performed by Dr. Martin O’Malley at HSS Sports Medicine in New York City, was a success.
Woods most recently competed at the Masters, where he withdrew early in the third round complaining of a return of painful plantar fasciitis in his foot.
However, the ailment, inflammation of the tissue band on the bottom of the foot, had caused him to pull out of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in November.
Woods had battled to make the cut at Augusta National, where weather delays made the event even more challenging, but was visibly limping at times on the storied course where he has won five times.
(Upshotreports)