Tiger Woods will have season-ending surgery to repair his left knee, the Golf Channel and Associated Press reported Wednesday.
According to the network, Woods experienced a small stress fracture in his surgically repaired left leg in the weeks leading up the U.S. Open, which caused him pain en route to winning his 14th major championship.
A source told the Golf Channel that doctors feel the world’s top golfer needs ACL surgery to fully repair his knee, on which he has underwent three previous surgeries.
“A source told the Golf Channel that doctors feel the world’s top golfer needs ACL surgery to fully repair his knee, on which he has underwent three previous surgeries.”
Anybody else find it even remotely ironic that the writer went to all the trouble to not end the sentence with a preposition (“which he has had three previous surgeries on”) but couldn’t get underwent/undergone right? Where oh where are the editors?
Guess that opens up a spot on the Ryder Cup. While Tiger’s record in that event is less than stellar, I would think he will be missed. Azinger may consider Rocco as a captain’s pick after his recent performances in the Memorial and US Open.
Is TW really that naive as to believe that the focus for the week was on anything BUT his left knee? That’s just an incredible statement by him. He should have withdrawn from the tourney after the second round and let the players play.
Of course, the USGA was thrilled by the whole thing, as was the network (NBC) because the bad knee drove ratings.
I mean, I’m glad he won and all, and he is the phenomenal talent in golf, but his performance this weekend smacked to me of an almost inexplicable desire to win at all costs. I guess if he’s not a winning golfer, he doesn’t really have an identity that he’s comfortable with.
Will be interesting to see how he handles aging. For his sake, I sure hope that surgical repair is successful.
mrb
Many prayers for Tiger for a swift recovery.
#1 samh:
Speaking of irony, I would think it should be “Where, oh where, are the editors?”
🙂
Regarding knees and (#3) “an inexplicable desire to win at all costs”, one wonders why anybody would step onto a football field.
The big winner in this situation is Sam – Tiger’s 1 year old daughter. She gets dad for almost a year – moving at her speed!
The big looser(s) – the guys on the tour in 10 months. They’ll have to face a more healthy Tiger. Yikes!
Reading current news reports and sports reports convinces me that if there are editors they don’t know grammar. Probably their schools didn’t teach it.
Once heard an English teacher say, “tried to larn them students, but they would not teach.”
About half of all Washington Post stories containing math are also in error. Once in an article decrying the loss of trees to construction in the D.C. metro area, they cited the annual number of acres being cleared as an enormous number. I checked their math and the annual cut-over area they claimed calculated out to be the same area as the state of Connecticut.
Guess thay dint larn no math neither. (Notice that in the south, we cleverly avoid use of the double negative by imposing the triple negative.)
Tiger’s back nine on Saturday was simply amazing! I could tell that he was in pain; now that I know all of the details of the injury to his knee, I am in awe of his accomplishment.