PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Tiger Woods says he’s no longer in pain, and that the neck tightness that led to his withdrawal from last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational is a byproduct of the fusion surgery that resurrected his career.
Speaking Tuesday ahead of The Players Championship, Woods said he began experiencing tightness during the Genesis Open at Riviera, but that it “wasn’t a worry.”
A week later at the WGC-Mexico Championship is when it “started to get a little tighter and tighter and tighter” as the week progressed.
“It was getting to the point where it was affecting my setup, my backswing, my through swing.