{"id":22448,"date":"2025-11-15T08:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/justin-thomas-to-miss-start-of-2026-season-after-back-operation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:03:40","slug":"justin-thomas-to-miss-start-of-2026-season-after-back-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/justin-thomas-to-miss-start-of-2026-season-after-back-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Thomas to miss start of 2026 season after back operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas&#8217;s two major wins came when he claimed victory at the US PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first title since the latter came when he won a play-off at the RBC Heritage in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My next few weeks will be a lot of resting before the rehab process begins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have a great team behind me who I fully trust to get me back to a better place than I was before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Before you ask, I&#8217;m not putting any tournament on the calendar or specific time for returning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While I will miss some events in the beginning of 2026, I want to be very smart and patient in letting my disc fully heal so it isn&#8217;t an issue again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cr5e07m98r3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas&#8217;s two major wins came when he claimed victory at the US PGA Championship in 2017 and 2022. His first title since the latter came when he won a play-off at the RBC Heritage in April. &#8220;My next few weeks will be a lot of resting before the rehab process begins,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22450,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22448\/revisions\/22450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}