A list of all of Tiger Woods' injuries and surgeries

A look at the injuries for Tiger Woods, who had surgery Tuesday on a ruptured left Achilles tendon.

—December 1994: Has surgery on left knee to remove two benign tumors and scar tissue.

—Dec. 13, 2002: Has surgery on left knee to remove fluid inside and outside the ACL and remove benign cysts from his left knee. Misses the season opener in 2003.

—August 2007: Ruptures the ACL in his left knee while running on a golf course after the British Open but is able to keep playing. Wins five of the last six tournaments he plays, including the PGA Championship for his 13th major.

—April 15, 2008: Two days after the Masters, has arthroscopic surgery on his left knee to repair cartilage damage.

—May 2008: Advised weeks before the U.S. Open that he has two stress fractures of the left tibia and should rest for six weeks, the first three weeks on crutches.

—June 24, 2008: Eight days after winning the U.S. Open, has surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee by using a tendon from his right thigh. Additional cartilage damage is repaired. Misses the rest of the season.

—December 2008: Injures his Achilles tendon in his right leg as he was running while preparing to return to golf.

—Nov. 27, 2009: Is hospitalized overnight with a sore neck and a cut lip that required five stitches when the SUV he was driving ran over a fire hydrant and into a tree.

—May 9, 2010: Withdraws from the final round of The Players Championship, citing a bulging disk. He later said it was a neck issue that caused tingling in his right side, and that it first became a problem as he began practicing harder for his return to the Masters a month earlier.

—April 10, 2011: Injures his left Achilles tendon hitting from an awkward stance below Eisenhower’s Tree on the 17th at Augusta National.

—May 12, 2011: Withdraws from The Players Championship after a 42 on the front nine. Is diagnosed with an MCL sprain in his left knee and a left Achilles tendon strain. He misses the next two months, including two majors.

—March 11, 2012: Feels tightness in his left Achilles tendon and withdraws after 11 holes of the final round in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He wins in his next start at Bay Hill, his first PGA Tour victory since the scandal in his personal life.

—Aug. 24, 2012: Moves stiffly during the second round of The Barclays and later says he felt pain in his lower back, which he attributed to a soft mattress in his hotel room.

—June 13, 2013: Is seen shaking his left arm during the opening round of the U.S. Open. He later says it’s a left elbow strain that he injured while winning The Players Championship a month earlier. He misses two tournaments and returns at the British Open.

—Aug. 11, 2013: Says he felt tightness in his back during the final round of the PGA Championship.

—Aug. 21, 2013: Two weeks after the PGA Championship, he drops to his knees after one shot because of back spasms in the final round of The Barclays.

—March 2, 2014: Withdraws after 13 holes of the final round at The Honda Classic because of lower back pain and spasms, describing it as similar to what he felt at The Barclays.

—March 9, 2014: Plays the final 12 holes with pain in his lower back, saying it began to flare up after hitting out of the bunker from an awkward lie in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He shoots 78, the highest score of his career in a final round.

—March 19, 2014: Withdraws from the Arnold Palmer Invitational because of the persistent pain in his back. He was the two-time defending champion.

—March 31, 2014: Has surgery in Utah for a pinched nerve.

—April 1, 2014: Announces he will miss the Masters and not return to golf until the summer.

—Sept. 16, 2015: Has a second microdiscectomy surgery to remove a disc fragment that was pinching his nerve.

—Oct. 28, 2015: Has a third surgery he describes as a follow-up to relieve discomfort.

—Feb. 3, 2017: Withdraws from the Dubai Desert Classic before the start of his second round with back spasms. He opened with a 77.

—April 19, 2017: Has surgery to fuse his lower back.

—May 30, 2017: Attributes an arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence when police find him asleep behind the wheel of a parked car as a reaction to prescription medication.

—March 4, 2019: Withdraws from the Arnold Palmer Invitational with what he describes as a neck strain that he has had for two weeks.

—Aug. 9, 2019: Withdraws after a 75 in the first round of FedEx Cup playoffs opener, citing a strained oblique.

—Aug. 27, 2019: Announces he had arthroscopic surgery the previous week to repair minor ligament damage in his left knee.

—Jan. 19, 2021: Announces he had a fifth microdiscectomy procedure on his back to remove a pressurized disc fragment.

—February 23, 2021: Crashes an SUV that police said was going about 85 mph in a 45 mph zone and suffers comminuted open fractures to the upper and lower sections of his right leg and trauma to his right ankle.

—April 9, 2023: Withdraws from the Masters instead of playing 28 holes in the cold. He attributes it to “reaggravating my plantar fasciitis.”

—April 19, 2023: Announces he had a subtalar fusion procedure on his right ankle to help with post-traumatic arthritis.

—Sept. 13, 2024: Announces a sixth surgery on his back to repair a nerve impingement.

—March 11, 2025: Has surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left foot that he hurt while ramping up practice and training.

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FILE - Tiger Woods walks on the 18th hole during the weather delayed second round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 8, 2023, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)

FILE - Tiger Woods walks on the first hole during the first round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on Thursday, April 6, 2023, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have met face to face to discuss President Donald Trump's ambitions to take control of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. At the same time, Denmark and several European allies are sending troops to Greenland in a pointed signal of intent to boost the vast Arctic island's security.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said after a meeting in Washington on Wednesday with his Greenlandic counterpart, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that a “fundamental disagreement” remained. He acknowledged that “we didn't manage to change the American position” but said he hadn't expected to.

However, Wednesday's events did point to ways ahead.

Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. agreed to form a high-level working group “to explore if we can find a common way forward,” Løkke Rasmussen said. He added that he expects the group to hold its first meeting “within a matter of weeks.”

Danish and Greenlandic officials didn't specify who would be part of the group or give other details. Løkke Rasmussen said the group should focus on how to address U.S. security concerns while respecting Denmark's “red lines.” The two countries are NATO allies.

“Whether that is doable, I don't know,” he added, holding out hope that the exercise could “take down the temperature.”

He wouldn't elaborate on what a compromise might look like, and expectations are low. As Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen put it Thursday, having the group is better than having no working group and “it's a step in the right direction.” It will at least allow the two sides to talk with each other rather than about each other.

Trump has argued repeatedly that the U.S. needs control of Greenland for its national security. He has sought to justify his calls for a U.S. takeover by repeatedly claiming that China and Russia have their own designs on Greenland, which holds vast untapped reserves of critical minerals.

Just as the talks were taking place in Washington on Wednesday, the Danish Defense Ministry announced that it was increasing its military presence in Greenland, along with NATO allies. France, Germany, Norway and Sweden announced that they were each sending very small numbers of troops in a symbolic but pointed move signaling solidarity with Copenhagen.

The U.K. said one British officer was part of what it called a reconnaissance group for an Arctic endurance exercise. The German Defense Ministry, which dispatched 13 troops, said the aim is to sound out “possibilities to ensure security with a view to Russian and Chinese threats in the Arctic.” It said it was sending them on a joint flight from Denmark as “a strong signal of our unity.”

Poulsen said that "the Danish Armed Forces, together with a number of Arctic and European allies, will explore in the coming weeks how an increased presence and exercise activity in the Arctic can be implemented in practice,” he said.

On Thursday, he said the intention was “to establish a more permanent military presence with a larger Danish contribution,” and to invite allies to take part in exercises and training on a rotating basis, according to Danish broadcaster DR.

While the European troops are largely symbolic at this point, the timing was no accident.

The deployment “serves both to send a political signal and military signal to America, but also indeed to recognize that Arctic security should be reinforced more," said Maria Martisiute, an analyst at the European Policy Center in Brussels. "And first and foremost, this should be done through allied effort, not by the U.S. coming and wanting to take it over. So it complicates the situation for the U.S.”

The European efforts are Danish-led and not coordinated through NATO, which is dominated by the United States. But the European allies are keen to keep NATO in play, and Germany said that “the aim is to obtain a well-founded picture on the ground for further talks and planning within NATO."

Poulsen has said he and Greenland's foreign minister plan to meet NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels on Monday to discuss security in and around the Arctic. NATO has been studying ways to bolster security in the Arctic region.

“I’m really looking forward for an announcement of some kind of military activity or deployment under NATO’s framework,” Martisiute said. “Otherwise there is indeed a risk that ... NATO is paralyzed and that would not be good.”

Sylvain Plazy in Brussels contributed to this report.

Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt speak at a news conference at the Embassy of Denmark, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

An Airbus A400M transport aircraft of the German Air Force taxis over the grounds at Wunstorf Air Base in the Hanover region, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026 as troops from NATO countries, including France and Germany, are arriving in Greenland to boost security. (Moritz Frankenberg/dpa via AP)

Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenland's Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt speak at a news conference at the Embassy of Denmark, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

A man rides by on a quad bike past a row of Greenlandic national flags in Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)