Justin Thomas is recovering from back surgery for a herniated disk, which he said Friday will forced him to miss the start of next season with no rush to return until he is fully ready.

“It’s a bummer, but I don’t want to have this stuff bother me the rest of my life,” Thomas said from New York, where he had the surgery on his lower back Thursday.

Doctors told him the surgery went as planned and he would start minor rehabilitation work in about three weeks. He said he could be playing golf in two months, but this is a recovery he’s going to take slowly to make sure he doesn’t return too soon.

Thomas won the RBC Heritage in April to end a three-year drought and returned to the elite in golf at No. 8 in the world and fourth straight Ryder Cup appearance.

He said the tests that showed a h

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