Agent rejects claim Tiger Woods back problem has worsened

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Tiger Woods&&num;8217&semi; agent has dismissed a suggestion the 14-time major winner has suffered a serious setback in the recovery from his latest back injury&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 40-year-old last played at the Wyndham Championship in August 2015 and has since undergone two operations on his long-standing back problem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Woods&comma; who last won a major in 2008&comma; also had microdiscectomy surgery in March 2014 and claims over the weekend&comma; from a prominent golf writer on social media&comma; suggested his condition had &&num;8220&semi;worsened&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The golf writer&comma; Robert Lusetich&comma; went on to say&colon; &&num;8220&semi;He can&&num;8217&semi;t move well&semi; painful to sit&period; Sits in car with seat fully reclined&period; No foreseeable return&period; Sad&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet Woods&&num;8217&semi; agent&comma; Mark Steinberg&comma; insisted the former world number one was continuing on the road to recovery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Steinberg said in a statement&comma; according to USA Today&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The tweets that appeared this weekend about Tiger&&num;8217&semi;s health are ridiculous and absolutely false&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s reprehensible that every few months someone makes something up and it&&num;8217&semi;s treated like a real story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Tiger continues to work on his rehabilitation and we will have an accurate update at the appropriate time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In December&comma; Woods &&num;8211&semi; the owner of 79 PGA Tour victories&comma; the most recent coming at the Bridgestone Invitational in 2013 &&num;8211&semi; reflected on a &&num;8220&semi;tough&&num;8221&semi; 2015&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking on tigerwoods&period;com&comma; he said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It was a tough year physically and took a toll on my body&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I had to battle through a swing pattern change and get that organised&comma; because it was awful at the beginning of the year&period; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t play for the longest time because I was stuck&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The frustrating part was not being able to build on it throughout the year&period; To finally have it switch and turn in the last event I played at the Wyndham Championship&comma; and then lo and behold&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t physically do it anymore&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve had two back surgeries since then&comma; 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