{"id":19252,"date":"2014-05-28T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/woods-says-he-will-miss-u-s-open\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:24:00","slug":"woods-says-he-will-miss-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/woods-says-he-will-miss-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods says he will miss U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tiger Woods says he will miss next month&#8217;s U.S. Open as he continues to rehab from back surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time U.S. Open winner said on his website Wednesday that he&#8217;s still not physically ready to play competitive golf after the March 31 procedure to fix a pinched nerve in his back.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery already forced Woods to miss the Masters for the first time in his career and he recently lost his No. 1 world ranking to Adam Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, the reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year, has made just four starts worldwide during this current season. His best finish was a tie for 25th at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in March &#8212; his final tournament before the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He won his third U.S. Open title, and 14th major championship, in 2008. It remains his most recent major victory.<\/p>\n<p>Next month&#8217;s championship at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina will mark the sixth time Woods, 38, misses a major because of injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Tiger Woods says he will miss next month&#8217;s U.S. Open as he continues to rehab from back surgery. The three-time U.S. Open winner said on his website Wednesday that he&#8217;s still not physically ready to play competitive golf after the March 31 procedure to fix a pinched nerve in his back. The surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}