I’m sure most of you have heard the news already but it was announced today that Tiger is shutting down for the rest of the 2008 season.
His reason? Oh, just a torn ACL and fractured tibia.
Yup, that’s right. Tiger Woods played 91 holes to win the U.S. Open with a broken leg and busted knee. There was a lot of talk over the weekend about how incredible Rocco Mediate was in keeping up with Tiger. And that’s true but those sentiments seem a bit hollow now with today’s news.
So now we have to trudge through the rest of the year watching guys like Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia struggle to set themselves apart and challenge Tiger as the best in the game. Good luck to them, I say.
The legend continues to grow for this guy who is easily on pace to go down as the best golfer in history. This weekend’s performance was just incredible.
Has anybody ever realized that the only ‘medical opinions’ on Tiger’s ‘winning the US Open with a broken leg or on one leg’ are offered by medical experts like Hank Haney or the writer for The Golf Slice. Say he won it with a torn ACL but please stop with the broken leg bit, his tibia had a crack(however small)some ibuprofens from Stevie would probably numb any pain from the ‘broken leg’.