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SPORTSThursday 25 February 2016
Tiger Woods posts video to rebut rumors of his demise
DOUG FERGUSON “If I picked up the phone he has to ride in a car with
and called you and said the seat full reclined. The
AP Golf Writer he’s doing some chipping tweet also said Woods has
and putting and making to lay down for the major-
PALM BEACH GARDENS, some swings up to a 9-iron ity of the time and sitting in
— and that’s what the club chair is no longer possible.
Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods was — is that impactful or Robert Lusetich, who wrote
a visual evidence of that?” a book about Woods’ 2009
posted a video of him he said. “We felt that was season after returning from
a more appropriate way to knee surgery, tweeted simi-
swinging a 9-iron in a golf go.” lar information the next day
Woods first had a microd- that he attributed to his
simulator on Wednesday iscectomy a week before sources, and talked about
the 2014 Masters, which it on a national radio show.
to shoot down rumors on kept him out nearly three Steinberg could not say if
months. He took off an- Woods would have posted
social media that suggest- other three months to get the video without the ru-
stronger, but then an- mors.
ed his recovery from back nounced another back “He does want to keep
surgery in September, and people in the loop to some
surgeries had worsened a third one at the end of degree,” he said.
October. Missing from the update
to the point he could not He has not played since was anything beyond “pro-
August. He has not won gressing nicely.” Woods
even sit in a chair. since August 2013. said in December that he
The tweet Sunday from misses competing and
The 13-second video “Secret Tour Pro” — who wants to return, though he
claims to be a tour player, does not appear to be in
Woods posted on Twitter though it has never been any rush this time. He has
verified — said that Woods’ said he tried to come back
shows him dressed in shorts condition had worsened too early from the first back
since Christmas and that surgery.q
and golf shoes, and he
takes a smooth swing on a
golf simulator. In this Aug. 23, 2015, file photo, Tiger Woods watches his tee
shot on the second hole during the final round of the Wyndham
“Progressing nicely,” Championship golf tournament at Sedgefield Country Club in
Greensboro, N.C.
Woods wrote.
Associated Press
The video (http://bit.
ly/1oHi2If ) had a time began over the weekend on this weekend with Twit-
stamp of Wednesday. with a Twitter account ter exploding and the ri-
If nothing else, it provided called “Secret Tour Pro.” diculous and erroneous
the first update on Woods Mark Steinberg, Woods’ discussions — I don’t even
since he spoke at the Hero agent at Excel Sports Man- want to call it reporting —
agement, released a state- we were inundated with
World Challenge the first ment Monday that said fans saying: ‘Wow. How
the rumors were “ridiculous can this be true?’ Clearly, it
week of December. This
was intended primarily,
however, because of the and absolutely false.” wasn’t true,” Steinberg said
social media storm that “With everything that went Wednesday.
