Thanks to a bad knee:
Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the season because of surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee, an injury he has been dealing with the last 10 months despite winning nine of 12 tournaments.
Woods also said he suffered a double stress fracture of his left tibia while preparing to return to the PGA Tour last month, which forced him to miss the Memorial and was the source of his pain at Torrey Pines when he won the U.S. Open.
He had arthroscopic surgery April 15 to clean out cartilage in his left knee, bypassing ACL surgery with hopes it could get him through the 2008 season. But going 91 holes for his 14th career major made it impossible to play any longer.
”Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is to listen to my doctors, follow through with this surgery and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee,” Woods said in a statement on his Web site.
And to think that he won the U.S. Open, including a playoff round and a sudden-death hole, on a knee that he probably shouldn’t have been playing on.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
You read something like this, about a guy who played through what must have been excrutiating pain, and STILL is the very best at what he does, and all I can think is, “This is a guy I’d like to know.”