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Sports Illustrated|March 26 - April 2, 2018

WOODS S FOURTH SPINAL SURGERY HAS HELPED RELIEVE THE PAIN THAT KEPT HIM OFF THE COURSE FOR YEARS

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HIS MEDICAL chart runs long with injuries—a chronically bum knee, problems in both Achilles tendons, an elbow strain, right-ankle pain, a sore neck—but over the last five years, Tiger Woods has been singularly plagued by an ailing back. He underwent three procedures, including two discectomies, to fix a pinched nerve from a herniated disc from March 2014 to October ’15, but he still couldn’t escape the pain that kept him off the course for more than a year.

This story is from the March 26 - April 2, 2018 edition of Sports Illustrated.

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