How Tiger Woods Won The Back Surgery Lottery

GINA KOLATA, New York Times: Golf
Wed, 05/15/2019 - 1:00pm

Surgeons cured Tiger Woods’s back on the fourth try — with plenty of help from Woods himself. But fusion surgery provides no guarantees of success.

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