Champ Kind Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tiger Woods has good reason to be optimistic about resolving a nagging back injury that led him to undergo a second back surgery this past week, a leading spinal surgeon told Reuters on Saturday. Woods, 39, said on his website on Friday that he had undergone a second microdiscectomy surgery similar to one he had on his back in March 2014 and was scuttling the rest of his 2015 playing plans with a hope to return to the links in early 2016. "Return to play for an elite athlete is around 90 percent, that they can return to their elite level of competition," Dr. Andrew Hecht, chief of spine surgery at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, told Reuters in a telephone interview. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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