Tiger Woods undergoes Achilles surgery after sustaining injury while training at home

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that helium ruptured his near Achilles tendon.

"As I began to ramp up my ain grooming and signifier astatine home, I felt a crisp symptom successful my near Achilles, which was deemed to beryllium ruptured," Woods announced connected societal media. 

Woods said helium underwent the country Tuesday, it "went smoothly" and "we expect a afloat recovery."

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Tiger Woods of the U.S. connected the 3rd spread during the last round. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File Photo)

"I americium backmost location present and program to absorption connected my betterment and rehab, convey you for each the support."

Woods has been participating successful his caller venture, TGL, a play simulator league founded by Woods and Rory McIlroy. He's teamed up with Tom Kim, Max Homa and Kevin Kisner.

Woods' already bleak aboriginal someway looks adjacent much ominous. Since finishing tied for ninth astatine the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open, his champion decorativeness successful his 18 authoritative events since past has been tying for 37th astatine the 2020 PGA Championship.

Last year, helium competed successful conscionable 5 events, 1 of them being the Genesis Invitational, the different 4 majors. He withdrew from the Genesis, finished dormant past successful the Masters and missed the chopped successful the last 3 majors.

Tiger Woods watches his tee changeable connected the archetypal spread during the archetypal circular astatine the Masters April 7, 2022, successful Augusta, Ga.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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That came aft helium competed successful lone the Genesis and Masters successful 2023, wherever helium finished tied successful 45th and withdrew, respectively. In 2022, helium played successful the Masters (47th), the PGA Championship (withdrew) and the Open Championship (missed cut).

Just erstwhile it appeared Woods was turning the timepiece back, it seemed similar each mendacious hope. In 2018, helium finished 2nd successful the FedEx Cup standings. In 2019, helium won the Masters.

Since then, it's been a pugnacious agelong for Woods, who, successful 14 majors since winning the greenish overgarment successful 2019, has failed to muster a apical 20 finish. It’s his longest specified streak since failing to decorativeness successful the apical 20 successful the archetypal six majors of his vocation successful 1995 and 1996. In his past 26 majors, helium has lone 4 apical 20 finishes.

Tiger Woods was progressive successful a single-vehicle car clang successful February 2021. (Oisin Keniry/Getty Images)

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After the U.S. Open, Woods, who turned 49 successful December, admitted it "may oregon whitethorn not" person been his past one. His latest wounded raises much questions astir his future.

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