Tiger Woods Achilles surgery marks an insanely depressing stat about his epic career

Father Time remains undefeated.

For Tiger Woods, Father is tracking him down like the modern golf GOAT used to do to so many of his peers in his Sunday red. The latest setback is a ruptured Achilles tendon, which he shared across his social media channels.

"As I began to ramp up my own training and practice at home," Woods wrote. "I felt a sharp pain in my left Achilles, which was deemed to be ruptured.

This morning, Dr. Charlton Stucken of Hospital for Special Surgery in West Palm Beach, Florida performed a minimally-invasive Achilles tendon repair for a ruptured tendon. "The surgery went smoothly, and we expect a full recovery," added Dr. Stucken.

I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab, thank you for all the support."

If that wasn't depressing enough for fans of golf, Golf.com's Claire Rogers astutely points out that with this procedure, Tiger, 49, will have had more surgeries than major championships.

Major Championships won: 15

Surgeries: 16

As of today, Tiger may have more surgeries than major championship wins and that is insane pic.twitter.com/EvIQsJRptI
— claire rogers (@kclairerogers) March 11, 2025

It's a simple grab from Wikipedia, but even seeing it there listed is shocking and sad. Seven back surgeries, the latest only last year. Four knee surgeries, including a complete ACL reconstruction. That's not even getting into the details of his severe car accident that almost ended his golf career entirely in 2021, when Woods was going 84-87 mph in a 45 mph zone.

PIC: Picture of Tiger Woods' vehicle via live feed from the NBC in Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/ckWoKiLnqj
— Austin Kellerman (@AustinKellerman) February 23, 2021

"This has been an entirely different animal," Woods told Golf Digest at the time. "I understand more of the rehab processes because of my past injuries, but this was more painful than anything I have ever experienced."

His goal of eclipsing Jack Nicklaus' vaunted 18 majors seems impossible at this point, as Woods also tries to ramp up his new league TGL, along with many other golf business ventures.

Hopefully Tiger can make one last run at a major, like the miracle Masters win in 2019. But at this point, his health is the only thing that matters now.

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