LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Back spasms not only kept Tiger Woods from playing at Riviera, they forced him to withdraw from a news conference.
Woods, the unofficial host of the Genesis Open, pushed his new conference back until Wednesday and then canceled it. The tournament said in a statement that after getting daily treatment the last four days, Woods was advised by doctors to limit all activities.
Even talking?
''He flew out here and got to see one of his doctors,'' Mark Steinberg, his agent at Excel Sports, said Wednesday. ''Based on the work they did the last couple of days, they advised he just stay horizontal.