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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: bigmikecox on June 18, 2008, 04:03:54 PM
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Woods set to have season-ending knee surgery
Out of competition for two months because of April 15 surgery to clean out cartilage in his left knee, he suffered a double stress fracture in his left tibia two weeks before the U.S. Open.
Hank Haney, his swing coach, was with him in Florida when doctors told Woods the preferred treatment was three weeks on crutches, followed by three weeks of rest.
According to Haney, Woods looked at the doctor and said: "I'm playing the U.S. Open, and I'm going to win."
"And then he started putting on his shoes," Haney recalled. "He looked at me and said, 'Come on, Hank. We'll just putt today.' Every night, I kept thinking there was no chance he's going to play. He had to stop in his tracks for 30 seconds walking from the dining room table to the refrigerator.
"He was not going to miss the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. There just wasn't any discussion."
And it was a U.S. Open that will be talked about for years.
Despite a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a double stress fracture, Woods managed to win a major that required five days of flinching, grimacing and a long list of spectacular shots that have defined his career.
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yeah thats amazing ::)
golf is so stressfull on the legs/knees
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Maybe Pumpster can just rehab him with some heavy squats or have jump off a house or some shit like that?
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WTF has this got to do with GOLF.
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wow it must be incredibly difficult to PLAY GOLF with a knee injury..i mean can you imagine he had to walk a few paces! i mean WALK A FEW PACES!!! WHAT A WARRIOR!!!!!!!!!!
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yeah thats amazing ::)
golf is so stressfull on the legs/knees
you need to transfer your weight from your back leg to your front leg during the downswing, putting alot of pressure on that front leg it was pretty damn impressive that he won with those injuries
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you need to transfer your weight from your back leg to your front leg during the downswing, putting alot of pressure on that front leg it was pretty damn impressive that he won with those injuries
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this is hardly more of a stretch than saying how impressive it would be to win an armwrestling tournament with a black eye
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Actually, there is a great deal or torque put on the left knee when swinging a golf club. Swinging that club on a torn ACL and with other injuries would lead to a great deal of pain with every swing.
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Actually, there is a great deal or torque put on the left knee when swinging a golf club. Swinging that club on a torn ACL and with other injuries would lead to a great deal of pain with every swing.
exactly
you need your legs to play golf playing with a torn acl would be extremely painful gotta give him props
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What a beast :o