Six-times major winner Nick Faldo is returning home after having \u2060successful open-heart surgery in the USA, the 68-year-old Englishman’s team said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Faldo, who won both the Masters and Open Championship three times with his last major coming at Augusta in 1996, spent two weeks in Cleveland where he underwent scheduled preventive open-heart surgery to repair an enlarged aorta.<\/p>\n
“Nick is now looking \u2060ahead to returning to his golf course design work \u2060and to the Masters Week in Augusta where he will be \u2060celebrating ‘Six back \u2060in ’96,” his team posted on social media platform X.<\/p>\n
“Home never felt so good.”<\/p>\n
Faldo had 30 wins on \u2060the European Tour, spent a total of 97 weeks atop the world rankings and represented Europe in the Ryder Cup 11 times, along with captaining the team in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-times major winner Nick Faldo is returning home after having \u2060successful open-heart surgery in the USA, the 68-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-288556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115908190216236599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}