Tiger Woods just suffered another devastating injury. Is he done?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tiger Woods was training at home, working his way back from yet another injury, when he was struck by one more devastating blow on the back-nine of his career: a ruptured Achilles tendon. Woods, who was attempting to return from his latest back surgery, says he felt a sharp pain in his left Achilles and underwent a “minimally-invasive" repair for an injury that will require arduous rehabilitation—with no guarantee that it will ever fully heal.

The circumstances raise a bleak question for the 49-year-old golfing legend who was already a diminished force on the course: Is this it for Tiger Woods? “I am back home now and plan to focus on my recovery and rehab," the 15-time major champion wrote on social media. “Thank you for all the support." The latter half of Woods’s career has been plagued by injuries that have forced him to play through pain during the scant opportunities when he has actually been able to compete in recent years. He last played competitively at the 2024 British Open in July, when he missed the cut.

A couple months later, he underwent the back surgery—one of more than a half dozen procedures he’s had on that part of his body alone. Since then, Woods has competed in a team event with his son and in the virtual golf league TGL, but not on the PGA Tour. The worst of his injuries followed a 2021 car crash that sent him into emergency surgery.

Ever since, he has described the hourslong process it takes to get his body through a single round and how merely walking 18 holes has become a grueling challenge. At times, Woods has appeared to use one of his clubs as a makeshift cane as he tries to navigate his way around a course. And all of that was before he tore his Achilles.