Tiger Woods’ immediate future already was up in the air after he underwent a second back surgery in September, but now there are even more question marks about the golfer.
Two tweets hinting at a longer-than-expected recovery for Woods produced doubt over whether or not the 14-time major champion would tee off at all in 2016.
But Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, quickly rebuked all Twitter rumors from the past 24 hours.
“The tweets that appeared this weekend about Tiger’s health are ridiculous and absolutely false,” Steinberg said Monday in a statement, via GolfChannel.com. “It’s reprehensible that every few months someone makes something up and it’s treated like a real story. Tiger continues to work on his rehabilitation and we will have an accurate update at the appropriate time.”
Woods last talked with the media in December at the Hero World Challenge, where he said there’s no timetable for his recovery. And based on these reports, he now has a setback to overcome.
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