Experiences of Appleby, DeLaet offer reality check to Woods

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Tiger Woods hopes to return to competitive golf next month but that does not mean he will be anything close to 100 percent healthy and ready to perform at his best, based on the experiences of two of his peers. Canadian Graham DeLaet and Australian Stuart Appleby have both undergone similar microdiscectomy back surgeries to Woods, who is targeting the PGA Tour's Oct. 13-16 Safeway Open in Napa, California, for a return after spending over a year on the sidelines. According to DeLaet, it took him more than two years before he felt his body allowed him to play the same way he did prior to his early 2011 surgery -- and he had the procedure at age 28, more than a decade younger than Woods, who turns 41 in December.

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