{"id":1249532,"date":"2024-02-15T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/tiger-woods-reveals-back-spasm-caused-him-to-shank-final-hole-in-california\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T08:11:00","slug":"genesis-invitational-2024-r1-tiger-woods-reveals-back-spasm-caused-him-to-shank-final-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/genesis-invitational-2024-r1-tiger-woods-reveals-back-spasm-caused-him-to-shank-final-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods reveals back spasm caused him to shank final hole in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods revealed a back spasm had caused him to shank the final hole of his return to a first PGA Tour event of 2024 at the Genesis Invitational in California.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, 48, is still adapting to ankle fusion surgery, having undergone treatment in April last year after withdrawing from the Masters during the third round and he did not compete again until the Hero World Challenge in December.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-time major champion finished Thursday\u2019s opening round at the Riviera Country Club on one-over par after shanking his second shot on the 18th from the fairway over into the trees on the right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Highlights | Round 1 | The Genesis Invitational | 2024\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fU8HMXrY9FI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Woods eventually sunk a two-putt bogey to make a five, and afterwards revealed he would need some treatment to get himself back out on the course again on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy back spasmed on it,\u201d Woods said in his post-round interview to the Golf Channel when asked about the shank on the 18th hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been spasming the last three holes, and it just locked up on me. Didn\u2019t move, didn\u2019t rotate, and present hosel first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods, who previously said he expects to participate in one event per month this year, added: \u201cWe have got some treatment ahead of us and some work to do, to be ready for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s just part of the deal, and (I) look forward to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former world number one Woods hit eight fairways, 10 of 18 greens, and took 30 putts in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy round was good and a little bit indifferent,\u201d said Woods, who had opened with an up-and-down birdie on the par-five first<a href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/tiger-woods-believes-pga-tour-can-do-without-pif-deal-after-ssg-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI struggled with the speed of the greens, even though I made a few and was stressing out on the short game, I had maybe like five pars today<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GolfTodayUK\">.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Cantlay was the early leader with his round of 64, one shot ahead of Australians Cameron Davis and Jason Day, alongside Luke List. Jordan Spieth was among the group two adrift at five-under.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content_link_1249530\" class=\"ct-div-block content-link_wrap\"><a class=\"ct-link content-link_image-wrap\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/tiger-woods-believes-pga-tour-can-do-without-pif-deal-after-ssg-investment\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Genesis-Invitational-Golf-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-link_image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tiger Woods\" srcset=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Genesis-Invitational-Golf-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Genesis-Invitational-Golf-1-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Genesis-Invitational-Golf-1-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"ct-div-block content-link_content\"><a class=\"ct-link\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/tiger-woods-believes-pga-tour-can-do-without-pif-deal-after-ssg-investment\/\"><h5 class=\"ct-headline content-link_title\"><strong>Related:<\/strong> Tiger Woods believes PGA Tour can do without PIF deal after SSG investment<\/h5><\/a><div class=\"ct-text-block content-link_text\">No final deal has been agreed despite a \u201cframework agreement\u201d being announced nine months ago.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Cantlay leading by one shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1249533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[5516,9051,534,84,244,95],"class_list":["post-1249532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pga","category-the_tours","tag-genesis-invitational","tag-pa-news","tag-patrick-cantlay","tag-pga-tour","tag-riviera-country-club","tag-tiger-woods","priority_tax-homepage-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.3 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Genesis Invitational 2024 R1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Patrick Cantlay leading the Genesis Invitational. 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