Woods out for two months following knee surgery

TIGER WOODS has had arthroscopic knee surgery and is unlikely to play on the PGA Tour until February.

Fluid and benign cysts were removed from Woods' left knee during a one-hour operation by Dr Thomas Rosenberg in Park City, Utah, on Thursday.

Woods will start rehabilitation in about a week but because he may need about two months to recover completely, will miss the season-opening Mercedes Championship from January 9 in Hawaii.