Lee Trevino thoroughly understands back surgery. Trevino had four such operations, incorporating one in the thick of his PGA Tour vocation, just before he turned 37 in December 1976.
Trevino came back to win eight more visit occasions, so he can offer point of view on the rebound that Tiger Woods is attempting to dispatch — again — this week in the Bahamas. Trevino's fundamental message, which Woods needs to regard: He should locate another approach to hit the golf ball.
"When you harm your back, your body is letting you know that you can't move that way," Trevino said in a telephone meet. "Tiger needs to redo his swing. On the off chance that he returns and continues swinging the way he did, he'll re-harm it. No question."
Trevino, similar to whatever is left of us, truly doesn't realize what's in store when Woods makes his first competition begin in over 15 months Thursday in the Hero World Challenge. It's regular to view his rebound with widespread doubt, given his prematurely ended return finally month's Safeway Open in Napa — he pulled back on Monday of competition week, three days after authoritatively entering the field.
That made Woods look awful.
SPORTS Dominguez 3-29-98 Lee Trevino responds to the group at the eighteenth gap just before his last stroke. He won the Southwestern Bell Dominion Seniors competition with a score of 11 under standard. jerry lara/staff Photo: JERRY LARA, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS Photo: JERRY LARA, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS SPORTS Dominguez 3-29-98 Lee Trevino responds to the group at the eighteenth gap just before his last stroke. He won the Southwestern Bell Dominion Seniors competition with a score of 11 under standard. jerry lara/staff
The way he safeguarded additionally recommended covering self-question. Woods demanded his back was fine, however he chose his amusement was not prepared following a few days of practice at Stanford. This blended jostling dreams of Woods splashing the ball everywhere, or battling another coldblooded instance of the "chipping howls."
Peer past these issues and his long haul prospects rely on a crucial physical question: Can one of the best players ever, soon to turn 41, recapture shape after three back surgeries in 19 months? The short reply, in light of past history of golfers with back inconvenience: It will be troublesome.
Exceptionally troublesome.
Woods had his first small scale discectomy in March 2014, to lighten torment from a squeezed nerve in his back. He had his second in September 2015, to evacuate a little plate part bringing about a squeezed nerve. At that point he had a subsequent method in October 2015 to calm uneasiness.
This succession sounds hauntingly well known to Trevino, a Hall of Famer with 29 triumphs in his PGA Tour vocation (counting six majors). He initially had a herniated plate, then a squeezed nerve. He was out of commission for three months at a certain point.
Trevino had his first back surgery in 1976, another in '82 but another in '95. He at last required an exceptional surgery in Germany in 2004, after his Champions Tour vocation was over, to determine the torment coming about because of nerves hitting bone.
The continuing lesson from Trevino's understanding, golf-wise, was the need to adjust. He transformed from an open position to a shut position, from hitting a slice to hitting a draw — anything to take weight off his back. He likewise didn't swing particularly hard after his first surgery.
Woods swings hard, presumably one major purpose behind his knee and back diseases throughout the years, so whether he can dial it back remains an open question.
"I truly don't know whether he can play up to his principles, as he did some time recently, with the way the diversion is played today," said Trevino, who turns 77 on Thursday. "It's a power amusement. I don't know whether he will have the capacity to swing that hard. …
"I was never at a similar level (after the principal surgery), since it resembles lighting a sparkler: You don't know when it will go off. Each swing, you don't have the foggiest idea about what will happen."
Trevino vanquished the vulnerability to gather those eight triumphs, including the 1984 PGA Championship at age 44. Be that as it may, other visit experts who came back from back surgery offer a blended pack of progress.
Steve Stricker, at age 47, had surgery in December 2014 to repair a protruding circle in his lower back. He battled in 2015 and played better this year (three main 10 completes in 15 begins), however he didn't win.
Retief Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion, had back surgery in August 2012, at age 43, to repair a harmed plate. Goosen, as Stricker, has played respectably from that point forward additionally still looks for his first post-surgery triumph.
Graham DeLaet does not have the qualifications of Stricker and Goosen, yet he likewise took in the difficulties of coming back from back surgery. Almost six years after his January 2011 operation, DeLaet still ponders about his back while uncovering shots from underneath the harsh and still manages torment and firmness practically consistently.
"I never feel like I'll be "ordinary" again," DeLaet said.
In the event that Woods needs a brighter standpoint, he ought to listen to old foe Rocco Mediate, with whom he broadly dueled in the 2008 U.S. Open. Intercede had miniaturized scale discectomy surgery in July 1994, at age 31; he returned to win four more circumstances on the PGA Tour and three circumstances on the Champions Tour.
Intercede, now 53, reverberated Trevino's notice: If Woods doesn't change his swing, he's set out toward more issue with his back. Be that as it may, if Woods rolls out improvements and remains solid, Mediate thinks Tiger will win again — bigly.
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"Regardless I think he has something left," Mediate said. "Individuals say he's done, yet I question it."
History proposes extraordinary players regularly win into their mid-40s; Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan each grabbed his last PGA Tour triumph at 46, and Arnold Palmer won at 43. Hogan, obviously, returned after a terrible auto crash in February 1949, at age 36.
Woods, who enters the current week's 18-player, welcome just occasion at No. 898 on the planet positioning, needs to understand his back issues first. At that point he should set aside his self image and adjust on the green, reevaluating his swing and figuring out how to flourish without his once-forcing power.
This is reasonable, completely. What's more, if Woods' back doesn't participate, Trevino prescribes a visit to his specialist in Dallas.
"On the off chance that Tiger needs to fly here, I'll lift him up," Trevino said. "What's more, I'll give him a chipping lesson while he's here. We can solve two problems at once."
Ron Kroichick is a San Francisco Chronicle staff essayist. Email: rkroichick@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ronkroichick
Trevino came back to win eight more visit occasions, so he can offer point of view on the rebound that Tiger Woods is attempting to dispatch — again — this week in the Bahamas. Trevino's fundamental message, which Woods needs to regard: He should locate another approach to hit the golf ball.
"When you harm your back, your body is letting you know that you can't move that way," Trevino said in a telephone meet. "Tiger needs to redo his swing. On the off chance that he returns and continues swinging the way he did, he'll re-harm it. No question."
Trevino, similar to whatever is left of us, truly doesn't realize what's in store when Woods makes his first competition begin in over 15 months Thursday in the Hero World Challenge. It's regular to view his rebound with widespread doubt, given his prematurely ended return finally month's Safeway Open in Napa — he pulled back on Monday of competition week, three days after authoritatively entering the field.
That made Woods look awful.
SPORTS Dominguez 3-29-98 Lee Trevino responds to the group at the eighteenth gap just before his last stroke. He won the Southwestern Bell Dominion Seniors competition with a score of 11 under standard. jerry lara/staff Photo: JERRY LARA, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS Photo: JERRY LARA, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS SPORTS Dominguez 3-29-98 Lee Trevino responds to the group at the eighteenth gap just before his last stroke. He won the Southwestern Bell Dominion Seniors competition with a score of 11 under standard. jerry lara/staff
The way he safeguarded additionally recommended covering self-question. Woods demanded his back was fine, however he chose his amusement was not prepared following a few days of practice at Stanford. This blended jostling dreams of Woods splashing the ball everywhere, or battling another coldblooded instance of the "chipping howls."
Peer past these issues and his long haul prospects rely on a crucial physical question: Can one of the best players ever, soon to turn 41, recapture shape after three back surgeries in 19 months? The short reply, in light of past history of golfers with back inconvenience: It will be troublesome.
Exceptionally troublesome.
Woods had his first small scale discectomy in March 2014, to lighten torment from a squeezed nerve in his back. He had his second in September 2015, to evacuate a little plate part bringing about a squeezed nerve. At that point he had a subsequent method in October 2015 to calm uneasiness.
This succession sounds hauntingly well known to Trevino, a Hall of Famer with 29 triumphs in his PGA Tour vocation (counting six majors). He initially had a herniated plate, then a squeezed nerve. He was out of commission for three months at a certain point.
Trevino had his first back surgery in 1976, another in '82 but another in '95. He at last required an exceptional surgery in Germany in 2004, after his Champions Tour vocation was over, to determine the torment coming about because of nerves hitting bone.
The continuing lesson from Trevino's understanding, golf-wise, was the need to adjust. He transformed from an open position to a shut position, from hitting a slice to hitting a draw — anything to take weight off his back. He likewise didn't swing particularly hard after his first surgery.
Woods swings hard, presumably one major purpose behind his knee and back diseases throughout the years, so whether he can dial it back remains an open question.
"I truly don't know whether he can play up to his principles, as he did some time recently, with the way the diversion is played today," said Trevino, who turns 77 on Thursday. "It's a power amusement. I don't know whether he will have the capacity to swing that hard. …
"I was never at a similar level (after the principal surgery), since it resembles lighting a sparkler: You don't know when it will go off. Each swing, you don't have the foggiest idea about what will happen."
Trevino vanquished the vulnerability to gather those eight triumphs, including the 1984 PGA Championship at age 44. Be that as it may, other visit experts who came back from back surgery offer a blended pack of progress.
Steve Stricker, at age 47, had surgery in December 2014 to repair a protruding circle in his lower back. He battled in 2015 and played better this year (three main 10 completes in 15 begins), however he didn't win.
Retief Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion, had back surgery in August 2012, at age 43, to repair a harmed plate. Goosen, as Stricker, has played respectably from that point forward additionally still looks for his first post-surgery triumph.
Graham DeLaet does not have the qualifications of Stricker and Goosen, yet he likewise took in the difficulties of coming back from back surgery. Almost six years after his January 2011 operation, DeLaet still ponders about his back while uncovering shots from underneath the harsh and still manages torment and firmness practically consistently.
"I never feel like I'll be "ordinary" again," DeLaet said.
In the event that Woods needs a brighter standpoint, he ought to listen to old foe Rocco Mediate, with whom he broadly dueled in the 2008 U.S. Open. Intercede had miniaturized scale discectomy surgery in July 1994, at age 31; he returned to win four more circumstances on the PGA Tour and three circumstances on the Champions Tour.
Intercede, now 53, reverberated Trevino's notice: If Woods doesn't change his swing, he's set out toward more issue with his back. Be that as it may, if Woods rolls out improvements and remains solid, Mediate thinks Tiger will win again — bigly.
MORE BY RON KROICHICK
Stanford QB Jim Plunkett amid the Big Game 1970.
Photograph was taken in 1970. Big Game has had it all — with the exception of Cal-Stanford hostile TEST San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) remains on the sideline amid the second 50% of a NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert) Colin Kaepernick additionally lost on decision day Chicago Cubs' Kris Bryant celebrates with his colleagues after Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Cleveland. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the arrangement 4-3. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Beats me — grants shared are best thisoldcub01.JPG
Ron Santo hits one of his 342 homers amid the 1969 season.
copyright This Old Cub, LLC
Kept running on: 03-06-2005
Offspring star Ron Santo hit 342 homers and won five Gold Gloves, driving the National League in helps a record-setting eight circumstances. Fledglings' excursion to World Series is outing through a world of fond memories
"Regardless I think he has something left," Mediate said. "Individuals say he's done, yet I question it."
History proposes extraordinary players regularly win into their mid-40s; Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan each grabbed his last PGA Tour triumph at 46, and Arnold Palmer won at 43. Hogan, obviously, returned after a terrible auto crash in February 1949, at age 36.
Woods, who enters the current week's 18-player, welcome just occasion at No. 898 on the planet positioning, needs to understand his back issues first. At that point he should set aside his self image and adjust on the green, reevaluating his swing and figuring out how to flourish without his once-forcing power.
This is reasonable, completely. What's more, if Woods' back doesn't participate, Trevino prescribes a visit to his specialist in Dallas.
"On the off chance that Tiger needs to fly here, I'll lift him up," Trevino said. "What's more, I'll give him a chipping lesson while he's here. We can solve two problems at once."
Ron Kroichick is a San Francisco Chronicle staff essayist. Email: rkroichick@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ronkroichick
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