{"id":8831,"date":"2023-09-19T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/american-golfer-gary-woodland-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-brain-tumor\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:55:03","slug":"american-golfer-gary-woodland-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/american-golfer-gary-woodland-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-brain-tumor\/","title":{"rendered":"American golfer Gary Woodland undergoes surgery to remove brain tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      American golfer Gary Woodland has undergone surgery to remove a tumor on his brain, an update posted to his social media accounts said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The former US Open champion underwent a \u201clong\u201d operation on Monday that removed the majority of the lesion, a diagnosis he revealed in a post on August 30.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">       Discovered a few months prior, the Kansas-born 39-year-old said he had attempted to treat the symptoms with medication before the decision for surgery was taken.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Woodland, whose last competitive appearance came at North Carolina\u2019s Wyndham Championship in early August, will now undergo a period of rest.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAt this time, the family requests space and privacy to be together,\u201d Monday\u2019s post added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThank you for all your thoughts and prayers as he gets started on the road to recovery.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A four-time winner on the PGA Tour, the highlight of Woodland\u2019s 16-year professional career came at Pebble Beach in 2019 when he beat compatriot Brooks Koepka by three shots to lift the US Open, his first major title.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      That marks his most recent win on the PGA Tour, though he has finished twice inside the top-10 this season and ranked 74th in the world after his tied-27th finish at the Wyndham Championship.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American golfer Gary Woodland has undergone surgery to remove a tumor on his brain, an update posted to his social media accounts said. The former US Open champion underwent a \u201clong\u201d operation on Monday that removed the majority of the lesion, a diagnosis he revealed in a post on August 30. Discovered a few months <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}