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Woods: Season-ending Surgery; What a way to go out though...
Topic Started: Jun 18 2008, 03:38 PM (350 Views)
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Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.

Woods explained why Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee that he injured 10 months ago.

He also suffered a double stress fracture of his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open, ignoring doctors’ advice to take six weeks off to let it heal. And he still won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, going 91 holes over five days on a knee that was getting worse.

“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 on his Web site.

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 the stress fracture and a ligament that could no longer sustain a powerful swing made it impossible to keep going.

Woods did not say when he would have surgery. His swing coach, Hank Haney, said the recovery is typically six to eight months.

Woods was last seen in public late Monday afternoon walking with a pronounced limp across Torrey Pines toward the parking lot, the U.S. Open trophy in his arms.

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First time Woods will miss a major. Still hard to believe he went out last week and won the U.S. Open - playing 19 extra holes - while having bad knee pain the entire time. Not a huge fan of his, but I respect his once in a lifetime (well twice, Jack Nicklaus) talent.

That last sentence I bolded...heh...I can just picture him limping out of there, like "Ok thanks, see you guys later bye."
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I like Tiger Woods as a golfer. I think that it's unfortunate to see him miss the whole season, but he won the U.S. Open.
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he won a major on a torn acl plus all the other tourney's he has played in since then. that is crazy. that makes his us open win even more remarkable now. hopefully he can come back at 100% next year.
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