Tiger Woods told the two things which stopped him from winning 30 major championships in his career

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Tiger Woods will unfortunately continue his lengthy absence from golf, having last played competitively at TGL.

Woods took part in the tournament he helped establish at the start of the year, but he has since undergone two surgeries.

The first was required after he ruptured his Achilles tendon, with the second just recently involving a seventh back surgery for Woods.

Now, Woods has dropped out of the top 2000 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career, epitomizing his current situation.

But his career wins figures are of much more significance, with his 82 PGA Tour titles placing him joint-top of the all-time list with Sam Snead.

Tiger Woods told the two things that stopped him from winning 30 major championships

Woods is also a 15-time major champion, and is behind only Jack Nicklaus in the all-time wins list, with the latter on 18.

Veteran caddie Billy Foster has now shared his take on the American, suggesting what he could have achieved in that regard with two key factors.

He said on The Rick Shiels Golf Show: “I believe Tiger Woods from 2008 when he won the US Open with a broken leg, the next 10 years was back operations, hip operations, countless knee operations.

“If he had stayed fit and stayed with Butch Harmon he would have won 25-30 majors. No doubt about it. 100% [he didn’t reach his potential]. He was golf on another level. Darren Clarke would rave about it.

“Tiger hit balls five yards behind Darren Clarke back in 2000 and Clarkey says ‘have you seen that?’ I was looking across and I was like ‘what do you mean?’ He said he’s just hit balls there for an hour and there’s not a mark. He just clipped everything.

“When I worked for him that time, he was only hitting eight irons 165, but he was hitting big high draws, low ones, high ones. You could have thrown a duvet over the lot of them. I was just going this guy is on a different level.”

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Woods proved Greg Norman wrong with his 15th major championship win, which arrived 11 years after his 14th.

While that was very unlikely, a 16th triumph looks near-impossible given the legend’s ongoing injury struggles.

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It will, of course, never be known just how many more victories could have been achieved if he had stayed fit and had kept working with Harmon.

It is also unknown when he can make a return to the course, and indeed what shape he will be in upon such a return.

That will encompass both his physical and mental states, which may be at all-time lows given his latest setback.

But one certainty is that his feats have ensured his status as a golfing legend, with the sport not likely to ever see anyone like Woods again.