Tiger Woods has been here before– six times, no less. Torn ligaments, shattered bones, and a spine rebuilt piece by piece, he’s endured it all. And now, yet again at nearly 50, he underwent a lumbar disc replacement at the L4/5 level. But as much as Woods insists it was the right to go under the knife for the seventh time, specialists had already been questioning if a surgery even was the right call earlier.

“I honestly can’t see a way out for him,” said Gavin Routledge , a respected osteopath based in Scotland with over 30 years of experience dealing with spinal issues. “We have known for decades that once you have one disc surgery, then the chances of having another are substantially higher, especially if you use the fusion technique like Tiger. It’s a domino effect,” Routledge cont

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