Tiger Woods Friday withdrew from the Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades.
Woods complained of pain during the tournament. He shanked his second shot on the 18th hole, sending the ball from the fairway just 71 yards toward the right tree line, leaving him 109 yards from the hole. He hit his third shot 112 yards to the green, leaving him 15 feet, 4 inches from the hole, then two-putted for a bogey.
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"My back was spasming the last couple holes and it was locking up," said Woods, who underwent a spinal fusion in 2017. "I came down and it didn't move and I presented hosel first and shanked it."
The hosel is the socket of a golf club head into which the shaft fits. A shank is when a player hits the ball anywhere except on the clubface
Woods underwent what a statement released on his account on X, formerly known as Twitter, described as a "subtalar fusion procedure to address his post-traumatic arthritis from his previous talus fracture," on April 19.
The surgery was the latest in the series of operations Woods has undergone since suffering multiple fractures to his right leg and ankle when the SUV he was driving rolled over on a downhill slope of northbound Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes on Feb. 23, 2021, two days after the conclusion of that year's Genesis Invitational.
Woods shot a 1-over 72 Thursday on the course with five birdies and six bogeys, birdieing the first, fourth, sixth, 11th and 14th holes and bogeying the second, third, 10th, 12th, 15th and 18th.
"A lot of good and a lot of indifferent," Woods said when asked to describe his round. "I was either making birdies or bogeys and just never really got anything consistent going today.
"I struggled with the speed of the greens. I couldn't believe how fast they were today even though I made a couple. I ran a bunch by the hole today, it was very stressful. But the golf course is in such perfect shape. Considering the amount of rain they've gotten, to get the golf course this fast is pretty impressive."
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