Woods Has Surgery on Left Knee for Minor Cartilage Damage
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-08-28
By DOUG FERGUSON, Associated Press
A season that began with Tiger Woods celebrating a fifth Masters title ended with a fifth surgery on his left knee.
This one wasn’t serious.
Woods said on Twitter he had arthroscopic surgery to repair what he described as minor cartilage damage. In a statement Woods released on social media, Dr. Vern Cooley said he looked at the rest of the knee and found no additional problems.
“I’m walking now and hope to resume practice in the next few weeks,” Woods said.
Mark Steinberg, his agent at Excel Sports, described the knee as little more than “irritating.”
“It was bothering him, but arthroscopic these days is different than we had years and years ago,” Steinberg said. “He’s up and walking now. This will have no effect on the fall or winter.”
Woods first had surgery on his left knee as a freshman at Stanford in 1994 to remove two benign tumors and scar tissue. He had arthroscopic surgery to remove fluid and cysts after the 2002 season, and another after the 2008 Masters to repair cartilage damage. Two months later, after winning the 2008 U.S. Open, he had reconstructive surgery to repair his ACL.
Steinberg described this surgery as “more cleanup maintenance.”