According to NBCSports.com, Tiger Woods will have season-ending ACL surgery on his left knee.
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.
That’s disappointing coming off a great performance at the U.S. Open, but obviously he was in a lot of pain and he doesn’t wan to be playing on a bad knee all year and possibly cause further damage.
