--- title: 9 Questions with Tiger Woods description: Tiger Woods The golf champion, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, talks about his recovery from back surgery, his legacy and what he wishes he... canonical: https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-03T11:44:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:04:41.993Z article:section: Sports og:title: 9 Questions with Tiger Woods og:description: Tiger Woods The golf champion, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, talks about his recovery from back surgery, his legacy and what he wishes he... og:url: https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 9 Questions with Tiger Woods twitter:description: Tiger Woods The golf champion, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, talks about his recovery from back surgery, his legacy and what he wishes he... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 9 Questions with Tiger Woods by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 3, 2015 11:44 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 3, 2015 11:44 AM UTC Tiger Woods The golf champion, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, talks about his recovery from back surgery, his legacy and what he wishes he had known before everything changed [Click here](http://time.com/tiger/) to read the full story. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/"},"headline":"9 Questions with Tiger Woods","datePublished":"2015-12-03T11:44:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:04:41.993Z","description":"Tiger Woods The golf champion, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, talks about his recovery from back surgery, his legacy and what he wishes he...","url":"https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/","keywords":["Tiger Woods"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4134386/9-questions/","name":"9 Questions with Tiger Woods"}}]}] ```