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Jordan Spieth's season is over and he plans surgery on his left wrist

Jordan Spieth’s season is over

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Spieth ended his season Sunday after one FedEx Cup playoff event and already was planning for surgery on his left wrist that has troubled him the last 16 months.

“I’ve got to have it operated on ASAP, and then I’ll go through the process of what I’m supposed to do from there,” Spieth said after finishing with a double bogey — vintage Spieth, he made a 30-foot putt to keep it from being worse — and a 74.

At issue is a torn sheath in his left wrist that holds the tendon in place. It first occurred a week before the 2023 PGA Championship , and Spieth has tried various treatments to avoid surgery. But it never got any better, and he could never predict how badly it was going to affect him .

Spieth said he’s talked to several people and the recovery is roughly three months, with physical therapy starting after the sixth week. He did not come close to finishing among the top 50 in the FedEx Cup to advance, so he has time on his side.

“If I don’t have a reason to try to rush back — which I don’t — I’ll probably just take it as slow as I can,” he said.

This was the second time Spieth failed to advance out of the first round of the postseason. He was No. 100 in the 2020 season when the top 125 qualified. Now only the top 70 reach the postseason and Spieth was No. 63, in need of a top 10 to advance. He tied for 68th.

Spieth started the 2023 season with five finishes in the top six before he first injured his wrist and had to pull out of the Byron Nelson. He has had only four top-six finishes since then, along with sixth place against a 20-man field at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

He was No. 10 in the world at the time of the injury. Spieth was at No. 43 going into the St. Jude Championship. He failed to make the cut eight times this year in 21 tournaments.

“I kept trying not to make excuses for myself because it didn’t hurt when I was swinging,” Spieth said. “But it doesn’t seem coincidental based on the amount of time, and really the results being the exact same every single week. So I’m very hopeful.”

“I think there’s some clarity in getting it done,” he said. “There’s also some uncertainty, and so it’s a little scary. But also, if I can learn to find some patience — which I’m not very good at doing — then I think I could come back stronger.”

Spieth called it the most frustrating year he has ever endured.

“I put a lot on my own plate and then had some unfortunate circumstances, too,” he said.

Spieth agreed to join the PGA Tour board when Rory McIlroy abruptly resigned last November, right about the time the tour brought on Strategic Sports Group as an investor in the commercial PGA Tour Enterprises while trying to secure an investment from the Saudi-backers of LIV Golf. At Pebble Beach this year, he played a practice round while using ear buds so he could be part of a conference call.

Even more frustrating was having a good year driving — he was 13th in the key statistical category off the tee. Spieth said that could be explained.

“Anything that impacted the ground was not a good scenario for me this year,” he said.

He declined to say when he would have surgery, and he does have time on his hands. He is not eligible for The Sentry at Kapalua at the start of 2025. Spieth said depending on the recovery, he might ask for an exemption to the Hero World Challenge in early December in the Bahamas.

Otherwise, he has no set plans.

“Other that two kids under 3, which makes it quite a bit harder with one arm,” he said.

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PGA Tour pro returns to Phoenix Open after 3-year layoff via ‘hole in my chest’

33-year-old Bud Cauley will make his first PGA Tour start in almost four years at the WM Phoenix Open this week.

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Almost six years ago, PGA Tour professional Bud Cauley suffered severe injuries in a car crash in Dublin, Ohio, the home of Muirfield Village Golf Club.

He immediately underwent surgery to repair six broken ribs, a fractured leg, and a collapsed lung, all of which were sustained just hours after he missed the cut at the 2018 Memorial Tournament .

Cauley went on to miss four months, making his return at the Safeway Open that fall. He would go on to play for a couple more years, but then a pain in his side began to bother him in the fall of 2020.

That discomfort stemmed from the accident in June 2018.

“I went and saw a couple of doctors. They thought it was maybe one of the plates I had in my chest. So I went to have the plates removed [in April 2021], and they couldn’t get them out because the bone had grown on top of them,” Cauley explained Tuesday at the WM Phoenix Open .

“So they stitched me back up, said, ‘I think we’ll be okay, we took a little scar tissue out, you’ll be fine.’ Then, 12 days later, my incision popped open. I’m just standing in the house, [my wife] Christy goes, ‘Your shirt is kind of wet.’ I take my shirt off; there’s just a hole in the side of my chest.”

Cauley immediately went to the emergency room, where another surgery awaited him.

Unfortunately for him, his incisions did not heal well, which consequently led to more operations.

“It was just a whole mess,” Cauley added. “I had a seroma and got C-diff from all the antibiotics. Everything that could go wrong seemed to go wrong. That set me back just over three years.”

The former Alabama Crimson Tide star barely touched a club between April 2021 and September 2023, thanks to these complications. He could chip, putt, and hit pitch shots, but he could not make a full swing.

“It’s hard to put into words how much you miss something when you grow up doing it every day,” Cauley said.

“You play golf every day, and when it gets taken away, it does change your perspective on just how fortunate we are to be able to play golf and even to get to do the thing that you enjoy doing.”

Luckily for Cauley, his beautiful golf swing did not change one bit despite the long layoff. He has not lost any speed either, which is impressive considering all the operations.

“I do truly think if he can continue to keep getting better and better, he’s just so good and so talented that he just has had an unfortunate go with injuries in the past and not really getting in a rhythm,” said Justin Thomas, one of Cauley’s best friends.

“But I’m excited that he’s back. He’s one of my best friends in the world, so it’s fun to have him here.”

Like any professional golfer, Cauley’s sole focus is working to get better.

“First, it was to get my body to where I could start playing more, and now that I’m back out here... I feel very prepared,” Cauley explained.

“I’ve had enough time to practice and get ready. I’m just going to go out there and really just compete, and I think the newness of it will wear off, and I’ll be able to just focus on the golf.”

Cauley began his 2024 season in the Bahamas, playing two events on the Korn Ferry Tour to work his way back into the competitive realm.

He played decently well for someone who has missed close to four years of action, finishing in a tie for 21st and a tie for 35th.

“I can practice and play at home, but until you get in a tournament and have the scorecard and have to finish out, it’s hard to replicate that at home,” Cauley said of his experience in the Bahamas.

“It was a great warmup for me. After a couple of days, I felt like I got the swing of it and fell back into a nice rhythm. That was great.”

This week, Cauley is back on the PGA Tour, making his first start since the 2020 Safeway Open. He has played in the WM Phoenix Open five times before, with his best finish coming in 2013, when he tied for 24th.

Everyone in Phoenix this week is delighted to see Cauley, especially the friends he is staying with near TPC Scottsdale.

But perhaps nobody in Arizona will be happier than Cauley himself, regardless of what happens with his score.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.

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Daniel Berger Provides Injury Update As PGA Tour Return Beckons

The American has been battling a back injury and hasn't played since missing the cut at the 2022 US Open

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Daniel Berger has posted a video of himself practising as hopes grow the former US Ryder Cup player is close to finally putting his injury nightmare behind him after slipping outside the top 250 in the World Rankings. 

The Florida pro has won four times on the PGA Tour and banked over $23 million in prize money, but he has not played for over a year due to a back injury. Berger's last appearance was in the US Open at Brookline in 2022, where he missed the cut. 

A painful back problem meant he needed ice baths just to be able to play before taking a break from the Tour, but now Berger looks to be on the comeback trail after filming a video on Instagram hitting a driver with the caption: "Back to work".

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The star's injury update will raise hopes he could be back in competitive action later this year. He first noticed a problem with his back in January 2022 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, where, despite the issue, he finished tied for fifth.

He battled on and collected two more top-five finishes, before finally deciding to step away after the US Open. In early May, Berger explained to the Associated Press  how bad the pain had become. He said: “That was the worst six months of my life. I’ve had a pretty easy life. I play golf for a living - it’s not that stressful. But there was a point that I would have given up golf for the rest of my life not to feel like that.”

Berger added: “I kept playing through it. It got to the point right around Augusta where I couldn’t sit down, I couldn’t do normal activities, I couldn’t play tennis. I needed to see someone about it. I tried to play the US Open. I was taking two ice baths a day to get on the course.”

Daniel Berger in his last PGA Tour appearance over a year ago

After rest didn't improve his back, Berger was recommended Stuart McGill, a Canadian professor specialising in biometrics of the spine. He discovered a deep bone sensitivity and gave Berger a strength and conditioning program to follow which looks to be paying off.

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The injury could hardly have come at a worse time for Berger who claimed his fourth PGA Tour win in February 2021 and finished tied for eighth at The Open in July that year. 

Two months later, he also impressed in Team USA’s emphatic victory at Whistling Straits and, after reaching a career-high of 12th in October 2020, Berger remained inside the world’s top 20 throughout 2021. However, he is now languishing 265th but Berger, who is the son of Davis Cup tennis player and renowned coach, Jay Berger, has vowed: "I’ll come back with fire in my belly."

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After overcoming myriad injuries, David Lingmerth wins on Korn Ferry Tour, earns trip back to PGA Tour

David Lingmerth poses with the trophy after winning the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — David Lingmerth earned a victory, validation and a certain ticket to the PGA Tour—something he hasn’t enjoyed since 2018—when he sank a 13-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole on Sunday to break a tie with Paul Haley II and win the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

The 35-year-old native of Sweden, who has battled a series of injuries the last five years, completed a wire-to-wire win in the second Korn Ferry Tour Finals event to beat Haley by two strokes for his first top-10 finish anywhere since the 2017 Quicken Loans National, a span of 117 starts combined on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour.

“Yeah, to get that putt to go in for birdie on 18 was a feeling I've been wanting to have for a long, long time,” said Lingmerth, who closed with a three-under 68 on the Scarlet Course at Ohio State University Golf Club and tied the tournament record with a 17-under 267 total. “So much relief, a lot of joy, a lot of pride that I was able to do it, you know, because it's been a little rough go for a while for me.”

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Neck, back, knee and wrist injuries have plagued Lingmerth, and he has struggled to get PGA Tour starts playing out of the past champion category from his victory at the 2015 Memorial at nearby Muirfield Village Golf Club. He finished this season 208th on the FedEx Cup standings but was one of the players who slid into a KFT Finals berth by being inside the top 200 on the points list because of the suspension of tour members who have defected to the LIV Golf series.

Last year, Lingmerth got into the Finals by finishing 199th in FedEx Cup points.

“It’s all about taking advantage of an opportunity,” he said with a smile after pocketing $180,000.

Whether he won was immaterial as he made his way down the final hole, knowing he was going to earn a card, but he admitted he was intent on finishing off the victory after opening with a course-record 62 on Thursday. “I was trying really hard not to focus on the PGA Tour aspect of things,” said Lingmerth, No. 2 in the Finals standings behind Will Gordon. “It's really hard to win golf tournaments on the Korn Ferry Tour or on the PGA Tour or anywhere really. To be able to knock a win off is a much, much better feeling.”

Lingmerth and Haley were tied going to the par-4 home hole after Lingmerth bogeyed from a greenside bunker and Haley made an 18-foot birdie putt for a two-shot swing. But Lingmerth, after an 8-iron from the fairway from 154 yards, was able to guide home the left-to-right slider and responded with a fist pump.

Haley ended up two back when he missed a short par putt that didn’t change his runner-up finish. He also shot 68. The native Texan was among six players who already have earned PGA Tour cards by finishing in the top 25 in the KFT regular season to post T-9 or better at OSU, leaving the overall race for the 25 PGA Tour cards available in the Finals more wide open heading into next week’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship. Those players do not count in the Finals standings, but they continue to accumulate points toward the competition for the No. 1 overall seed, which is worth a berth in the U.S. Open, the Players Championship plus full exempt status, meaning he would not be subject to a reshuffle on the KFT priority list in midseason.

Haley, third in the regular season, leapfrogged into the top spot overall, overtaking regular-season leader Carl Yuan.

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Among the 2021-22 PGA Tour members who locked up their return on Sunday were Michael Gligic of Canada, Henrik Norlander of Sweden and Joseph Bramlett. Gligic finished fourth at 272 after a closing 69 and he secured fourth on the Finals list, while Norlander and Bramlett were in a share of sixth at 10-under 274. Norlander shot 67 to move to eighth in the Finals and Bramlett had a 68 after playing his first four holes in two over par. He stands fifth in the Finals standings.

“It’s stressful, really stressful, but it feels really good,” said an emotional Bramlett, 34, who finished his PGA Tour season 174th in the FedEx Cup standings. “I’ve worked very hard, and I take this seriously and I never quit. Two over par to start on this golf course is not great, but I just had to suck it up and keep playing and keep competing.”

Two players won cards despite finishing down the leaderboard.

Thanks to their T-4 finishes the week before at the Albertson’s Boise Open, Austin Cook and Dean Burmester also sewed up berths on the PGA Tour by finishing T-34 and T-46, respectively, after closing 69s. Cook is sixth in the Finals and Burmester seventh after he birdied his final hole to earn his first tour card at age 33.

“Man, it's a long road from where I've come from, a junior taking the game up fairly late,” said Burmester, who was contemplating a trip with his wife and kids to Chuck E. Cheese for a celebratory dinner. “Always played when I was younger, my parents just dragged me to the golf course on holidays playing 72 holes a day,” he said. “Now I get goosebumps thinking about where I'm heading to: No. 1 tour in the world and best job in the world.”

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BMW Championship 2024 Thursday tee times, PGA Tour pairings and how to watch

The PGA Tour's 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs continue this week in Denver, Colorado, at Castle Pines Golf Club for the 2024 BMW Championship . World No. 1 and gold medalist Scottie Scheffler headlines the field. He'll be joined by Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy, FedEx St. Jude Championship winner Hideki Matsuyama, defending champion Viktor Hovland and Collin Morikawa, among others.

Castle Pines is a par-72 track measuring 8,130 yards.

The purse at the BMW Championship is $20 million with $4 million going to the winner. The champion will also earn 2,000 FedEx Cup points.

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From tee times to TV and streaming info, here's everything you need to know for the first round of the BMW Championship. All times listed are ET.

Thursday tee times

Pairings and starting times for the first and second rounds of the BMW Championship pic.twitter.com/2rGDuSMb3h — PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) August 20, 2024

How to watch, listen

ESPN+ is the exclusive home of PGA Tour Live . You can also watch the 3M Open on Golf Channel free on Fubo . All times ET.

Thursday, Aug. 22nd

Golf Channel / Peacock : 3-7 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-7 p.m

ESPN+ : 10:15 a.m.-7 p.m

Friday, Aug. 23rd

Saturday, aug. 24th.

Golf Channel / Peacock : 1-3 p.m

NBC : 3-6 p.m.

Sirius XM: 1-6 p.m

ESPN+ : 9 a.m.-6 p.m

Sunday, Aug. 25th

Golf Channel / Peacock : 12-2 p.m

NBC : 2-6 p.m.

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2024 FedEx Cup standings, schedule, PGA Tour leaderboard, purse, prize money for FedEx Cup Playoffs

Your one-stop shop for everything you need to know throughout the 2024 fedex cup playoffs.

Following an exciting regular season, the PGA Tour hosts a three-tournament postseason, the 2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs, which concludes with a massive Tour Championship where the majority of the grand total $100 million purse is dished out to golfers. In fact, the $25 million top prize is tied for the largest payout on the PGA Tour this season with the Players Championship. 

Only 70 golfers advanced to the first round of the playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, same as last season. With 20 of those players now eliminated following the first event of the playoffs at TPC Southwind in Memphis, some of the biggest names in golf will no longer have a chance to compete for the top prize.

There's plenty of star power in the field, though, with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele atop the standings and other significant players like Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark in contention. For Scheffler, a FedEx Cup win would be his first, but it would also serve as a feather in his cap on the back of a stellar season that already includes six PGA Tour victories and an Olympic gold medal. The same goes for Schauffele, a two-time major championship winner this season.

For everyone involved, there will be a ton of money and plenty of accolades at stake over the next three weeks. Let's take a closer look at what to expect from this year's festivities.

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule

The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings, via points accumulated throughout the year, played in the St. Jude Championship this week.

All three events are 72-hole, stroke-play tournaments, though the fields gradually get smaller as the playoffs roll on. The points change, too, as everything is quadrupled. During regular-season events, most winners receive 500 FedEx Cup points for finishing first at tournaments (in a handful of events, 600 points went to first place). The winners of the first two FedEx Cup Playoffs events will instead receive 2,000 points each. The point boost goes for every slot on the leaderboard: 300 for second becomes 1,200 and so on. 

Only seven golfers surpassed the 2,000-point total during the entire regular season: Scheffler, Schauffele, McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Ludvig Åberg and Sahith Theegala. Scheffler opened with nearly a 3,500-point lead on third-place McIlroy, while Schauffele himself was 1,500 points up on the rest of the field.

Still, the FedEx Cup standings can shift quite a bit -- especially for the winners of the first two events -- over the next couple weeks. Winners are disproportionately rewarded and deservedly so given this is the postseason. This provides the opportunity for golfers to go on a hot streak and rocket up the FedEx Cup standings. Regardless of what else happens, the first two playoff winners will be in great spots entering the finale, the Tour Championship at East Lake. Similar to other sports, now that the postseason has begun, almost anything can happen.

The top 50 in the FedEx Cup standings after the St. Jude Championship move on to the BMW Championship. Then the top 30 after that move on to the Tour Championship.

2024 FedEx Cup standings

Scheffler and Schauffele are having extraordinary seasons. They rank No. 1 and No. 3 on the all-time single season money list at $29.1 million and $17.6 million, respectively, following the first playoff event. Those numbers will only go up from there as the second playoff event, the BMW Championship, has a similar $20 million purse to the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Here's a look at the top 30 in the standings following the FedEx St. Jude Championship.

Even though anything can happen over the next two weeks, players are still rewarded for what they accomplished in the regular season. The lead Scheffler (nearly 3,000 points over third) and Schauffele (1,100 points over third) have built will be difficult to chip away if those two continue performing well. For example, Schauffele is the only player who can mathematically catch Scheffler next week at the BMW Championship, and it will take a win to do it. Matsuyama is the only player who can catch Schauffele for second.

Scheffler and Schauffele are in a great spot to jump into the top two spots at the Tour Championship where they would start at 10 under and 8 under, respectively. That gives them a huge head start on winning the first FedEx Cup of their careers. For either, it would be emblematic of the quality of golf they have played for the last seven months as the 2024 PGA Tour season winds down.

2024 Tour Championship format

Heading into the Tour Championship inside the top five or top 10 in the FedEx Cup standings is important because of how scoring is dispersed. Whoever is first in the FedEx Cup standings after the BMW Championship starts the Tour Championship at 10 under, and the event is played under normal scoring conditions from there. Second starts at 8 under and so on (see full numbers below). 

With so much money at stake (again, $25 million for first place), those margins become more meaningful than even a normal week. The eventual winners of the four FedEx Cups played under this format have all started in the top seven at the Tour Championship.

• 6th to 10th: -4
• 11th to 15th: -3
• 16th to 20th: -2
• 21st to 25th: -1
• 26th to 30th: E

2024 FedEx Cup Playoffs purse, prize money

2024 st. jude championship purse, prize money.

• 1st: $3.6 million
• 2nd: $2.2 million
• 3rd: $1.4 million
• 4th: $960,000
• 5th: $800,000
• 6th: $720,000
• 7th: $670,000
• 8th: $620,000
• 9th: $580,000
• 10th: $540,000

2024 BMW Championship purse, prize money

• 4th: $990,000
• 5th: $830,000
• 6th: $750,000
• 7th: $695,000
• 8th: $640,000
• 9th: $600,000
• 10th: $560,000

2024 Tour Championship purse, prize money

The figures are startling for the finale. The winner of the Tour Championship receive $18 million. If you just make into the final FedEx Cup Playoff event, you're guaranteed $500,000. Here's a look at what the lucrative top 10 will look like at the Tour Championship.

• 1st: $25 million
• 2nd: $12.5 million
• 3rd: $7.5 million
• 4th: $6 million
• 5th: $5 million
• 6th: $3.5 million
• 7th: $2.75 million
• 8th: $2.25 million
• 9th: $2 million
• 10th $1.75 million

Last year, Viktor Hovland won the BMW Championship and then took the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup over Schauffele. Both players shot the same 19-under score at East Lake to end the year, but Hovland started the tournament at 8 under while Schauffele only started it at 3 under so Hovland easily won by five and took home the first prize of what was then $18 million.

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Tiger Woods' injury timeline

Tiger Woods' ailments are well-documented, starting in his collegiate days and continuing throughout his 20 years on the PGA Tour.

The following is a list of Woods' injuries and procedures throughout his career:

Tumor removal : When Woods was a student at Stanford University, he had a benign tumor removed from his left knee.

Cyst removal, fluid drain : In December 2002, Woods had a benign cyst removed from his left knee and fluid drained from around one of his ligaments. He returned to play at the 2003 Buick Invitational, which he won.

Shoulder : After winning the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational and the Deutsche Bank Championship in back-to-back weeks, Woods was unsure whether he would be able to play in the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship because of an injured muscle in his left shoulder blade. He did, in fact, play the event, winning with a total of 23 under.

Ruptured ACL : Woods ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while at home running after the 2007 British Open but decided against surgery. He then went on to win five of his next six events.

Arthroscopic knee surgery : Two days after finishing second at the 2008 Masters, Woods had arthroscopic knee surgery to clean out cartilage. He was set to recover in four to six weeks. He made his return to the course at the U.S. Open. The result? He won.

ACL repair : Woods had reconstructive surgery on the damaged ACL and missed the remainder of the 2008 season. In addition to the ACL problem, Woods also had a double stress fracture in his left tibia as a result of preparation for the 2008 U.S. Open.

Torn right Achilles tendon : At the 2010 Masters, Woods revealed that he tore his right Achilles tendon in 2008, and reinjured the tendon several times in 2009, yet continued to play.

Apparent neck injury : Woods was forced to withdraw from the Players Championship during the final round with a neck injury. An MRI revealed that Woods had an inflamed facet joint in his neck.

April 26, 2011

Left MCL sprain, strained left Achilles tendon : Tiger Woods announced he will miss the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. Woods suffered a Grade 1 mild MCL sprain to his left knee and a mild strain to his left Achilles tendon while hitting a difficult and awkward second shot from the pine straw under the Eisenhower tree left of the fairway at No. 17 during the third round of the Masters. Woods was able to continue playing at Augusta and then later decided to seek a medical evaluation.

May 12, 2011

Knee, Achilles act up : Woods withdrew from The Players Championship with apparent injuries after nine holes (shot 42). "The knee acted up, and then the Achilles followed after that, and then the calf started cramping up. Everything started getting tight," he said. Woods didn't play again until WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in August 2011.

March 11, 2012

Injury to left Achilles tendon : Woods withdrew from final round of WGC-Cadillac Championship.

March 2, 2014

Back issues : Woods withdrew from the final round of The Honda Classic.

March 18, 2014

Back spasms : Woods announced he wouldn't play the Arnold Palmer Invitational, citing lingering pain.

April 1, 2014

Back surgery : Woods announced he would miss the Masters after undergoing a microdiscectomy for a pinched nerve, which had been hurting him for several months. Woods said he would return to golf "sometime this summer," which he did in late June at the Quicken Loans National.

Sept. 16, 2015

Back surgery : After missing the cut in three of the four majors of 2015 but posting his best finish of the year in his final start, in August, Woods underwent a second microdiscectomy surgery and said he hoped to return in "early 2016."

Oct. 28, 2015

Back procedure : About a month after his second back surgery in a year and a half, Woods announced that he had undergone a follow-up procedure to relieve discomfort in the area. The procedure was performed by Dr. Charles Rich, the same neurosurgeon who performed the previous two surgeries.

Feb. 3, 2017

Back spasms: Woods withdrew before the second round of Dubai Desert Classic citing back spasms. Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said at the time that the problem was not related to nerve issues that plagued the 14-time major champion over the past few years and resulted in three surgeries, the most recent coming in August 2015.

Woods announced he underwent successful back surgery to alleviate ongoing pain in his back and leg. "The surgery went well, and I'm optimistic this will relieve my back spasms and pain," Woods said via his website. "When healed, I look forward to getting back to a normal life, playing with my kids, competing in professional golf and living without the pain I have been battling so long."

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What happens after ‘fore’? Injured fans face legal hurdles in golf-ball lawsuits

Ryder Cup spectator Corine Remande left Le Golf National last week with permanent vision loss in her right eye after Brooks Koepka’s errant tee shot on the par-4 6th hole on Friday morning  struck her  in the head. After being released from the hospital, Remande, 49, said that she had planned to sue the event organizers because “officials did not shout any warning as the player’s ball went into the crowd.”

The European tour said in a statement that they “can confirm that ‘fore’ was shouted several times but also appreciate how hard it can be to know when and where every ball is struck if you are in the crowd.”

Remande isn’t the first fan to get plunked at a professional event. Far from it. Tiger Woods hit a fan in the neck with his opening tee shot at the 2010 Memorial. Pat Perez beaned not one but two spectators in a single round at the 2017 Genesis Open, prompting Shane Lowry to tweet, “What’s it going to take for players to start shouting fore?” After Ernie Els’s opening tee shot at the 2014 British Open struck a fan in the face, he was so rattled that he went on to shoot a 79. “I was trying to hit it left,” he said, “and should have told the starters to move the people back on the left side, but I didn’t do that.”

All of which begs the question: Can tournaments or golfers be held legally liable when an errant shot injures a fan?

Not likely.

The same legal standards apply to both pro golf events and recreational golf, but it is especially difficult to claim damages at a PGA Tour event, according to several attorneys with expertise on golf law. To begin with, the risks of golf-spectating are printed right there on the back of PGA Tour tickets. A disclaimer states that spectators “voluntarily assume all risk and danger incidental to the game of golf.”

California-based attorney Ed Smilow said an injured fan could theoretically have success making a claim against the host course if he or she could prove that the course was laid out with reckless disregard for spectator safety.

“Golf courses are responsible for maintaining a safe course for golfers and spectators,” Smilow said. “Courses must take reasonable measures to protect those who use it and themselves legally.”

Making a case against the golfer who hit the ball is an even tougher legal road to hoe. “The golfer cannot be held liable because they cannot control the ball,” Smilow said. “No golfer has a perfect shot every time. Even Ben Hogan had plenty of bad shots. It’s going to be hard to make a claim against any golfer.”

Smilow said the only way a golfer could be found liable if he or she were to deliberately fire a shot into a crowd.

Randy Maniloff, a Philadelphia-based attorney at the firm White and Williams, said that the best way to interpret and understand how courts will rule in golf injuries is to look at Major League Baseball. What has been dubbed “the baseball rule” dictates that stadium operators have an obligation to provide safe seats to fans and alert them of the dangers. If fans choose to spectate from a seating area that is not considered safe, they are accepting an assumed risk.

“Stadiums are responsible for providing ample protection and safety to fans,” Maniloff said. “Courts have ruled in favor of stadiums and it’s very hard to win against them.”

The court would apply the same standard to a golf course by assessing whether or not the club has provided both safe standing areas for spectators and reasonable warning for fans of the risks if they choose to stand in another location.

“Unless you can show that there was something inherently dangerous, the court would not allow someone to recover,” Maniloff said. “They would say that there are enough safe places to take in golf.”

So, if you’re a golf fan worried about getting bonked, stay out of the landing zones — or, better yet, take in the action from the safest place of all: behind a tee box.

One-liners: Get to know all 50 players advancing to BMW Championship

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Following the first of three events in the season-ending FedExCup Playoffs – the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind, won by Hideki Matsuyama – the field for this week’s BMW Championship at Castle Pines outside Denver is officially set.

Meet the 50 players in the field for this week’s BMW Championship.