Tiger Woods: knee surgery
It has been news that Tiger Woods had knee surgery two days after finishing runner-up to Trevor Immelman at the Masters on Sunday may go some way to explaining the world No1′s relatively lackluster performance at Augusta National. Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee to repair damaged cartilage and is expected to be out for four to six weeks. He will probably miss The Players Championship, dubbed by some as the fifth major, at Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, next month, but he expects to be fit for the US Open, at Torrey Pines, San Diego, in June.
If there are no complications in his recovery, the enforced layoff will not affect Woods’s sharpness on the course. He plays in fewer tournaments than any of his rivals and yet wins far more. In 2007, he played in only 16 events on the PGA Tour in the United States, winning seven times; in the previous year, he won eight out of 15.
The question, however, is: how much more can one knee take? There is an underlying weakness, which may be the undoing of arguably the best player to have graced the sport
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Posted by Denz
on Apr 29 2008. Filed under sports headlines.
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