Tiger out for the season

[mrmuzeman]

Injured Woods out for the season

US Open champion Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the season to undergo surgery on his injured left knee.

That means Woods is ruled out of the Open at Royal Birkdale, Ryder Cup and USPGA Championship.

"It was important to me that I disclose my condition publicly at an appropriate time," Woods said on his website.

"Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is listen to my doctors, follow though with this surgery, and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee."

[Snodser]

Or maybe not ..........................







Thursday June 19 2008

Tiger Woods could be out of action for as little as three months after undergoing a knee reconstruction.
Woods revealed yesterday he needs surgery to repair the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, just days after returning to action after an earlier operation to win his 14th major title, the US Open, in a play-off.
Reports have suggested Woods will be out until next season, but Simon Moyes, one of the UK's leading orthopaedic surgeons, believes he could be back in action much sooner than some forecasts.
Moyes, who works from the Wellington Hospital, said: ``I personally believe that playing in the US Open would only have made his condition marginally worse. However, I am impressed he could play in his condition.
``It just demonstrates the exceptional athlete that he is.
``Once he has had his operation, I would expect him to be out of action for three months.''
That prognosis might come as a surprise to England striker Michael Owen, who was sidelined for 10 months after rupturing the same ligament at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
However, Owen required two operations, the first to repair his cartilage, at the Denver clinic of renowned knee specialist Richard Steadman.
He finally returned to action in April last year after a gruelling period of rehabilitation with Steadman insisting his knee would be as good as new, and it has not let him down since.
Woods triumphed at Torrey Pines despite a double stress fracture of the tibia in the same leg and later admitted he might have taken better notice of the advice from his doctors.
It later emerged that the suggested rehabilitation programme began with three weeks on crutches and a further three weeks' rest.






................time will tell

[mrmuzeman]

I guess even if it was 3 months it wouldnt be much different to missing out the rest of the season. He'll miss The Open and The PGA. Ryder Cup is in exactly 3 months though I think but I doubt hed rush out for that with little or no proper rehab

[keemanan]

I'm With Goosen , he's limping on his wrong leg today I heard!

“I think so. It just seemed that when he hit a bad shot his knee was in pain and on his good shots he wasn’t in pain. You see when he made the putts and he went down on his knees and was shouting, ‘Yeah’, his knee wasn’t sore.
“Nobody really knows if he was just showing off or if he was really injured. I believe if he was really injured, he would not have played.”

He's been busted now he's got his quack to sign him off , pathetic really , I hear he's half scouse :groucho

[mrmuzeman]

I dont think Goosen will have made many friends with those comments. I saw numerous good shots where he showed pain, infact the one where he showed most pain and leaned on his bag after was a great approach shot which set up an easy birdie. Goosens talking out of his fat arse