Tiger Woods is out for the season because of knee problems, according to a Golf Channel report that has been confirmed by the Associated Press.
The network, citing unidentified sources, says the U.S. Open winner will undergo knee surgery.
Update at 12 p.m. ET: Woods posted a statement on his website.
"While I am obviously disappointed to have to miss the remainder of the season, I have to do the right thing for my long-term health and look forward to returning to competitive golf when my doctors agree that my knee is sufficiently healthy," he says. "My doctors assure me with the proper rehabilitation and training, the knee will be strong and there will be no long-term effects."
(Photo taken Monday by Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images.)
Comments: (9)
Tim in PA wrote: 14h 42m ago
I hope your surgery gets you back to 100%, Mr. Woods. Thanks for a great season of golf.
dian1045 wrote: 14h 35m ago
Best Wishes on the impending surgery and recuperation. You've made watching golf a pleasure and wonderful experience for me. It used to be a boring game but not now. You are phenomenal!!
Paul In NY wrote: 14h 6m ago
I'll bet Rocco wishes he had come to that decision a few days earlier.
sisadee wrote: 13h 39m ago
Mercy! I fear the greatest golfer I've ever seen may never be the same...it would be a Greek tragedy of unparalleled proportions were Tiger to already have played his last, and the most dramatic major ever. Obviously this will be major re-constructive surgery and, Tommy Agee notwithstanding, hardly ever recovers 100% of the knee's prior function. As a golf fan and a social liberal, this saddens and concerns me deeply. It took a Black/Thai of such outstanding talent, in the lily white sport of the conservative establishment, and, insult to injury, to have such class and social elan about him as to put the most rabid of biased bigots on the defensive..and, grudgingly, even win some over.
sisadee wrote: 13h 33m ago
If Rocco is the decent human being that I take him to be, the thought of Tiger being injured to the extent of allowing Rocco to win the Open, would never enter his mind. Small, unfeeling minds invariably utter small, unfeeling remarks.
truckman wrote: 13h 20m ago
an athlete thinking of his future, good news.
mikemo44 wrote: 11h 54m ago
Does anyone really waste time watching golf?
Only crazies play golf imhPo.
Shaun32 wrote: 11h 48m ago
Tiger punked out on this one and he just showed how weak the field is. He came out to play at Torrey where he knows is not a hard course to walk and he know he had a shot with a bad knee. Had the course or field of play been tougher he would have shut it down weeks ago, but the savior or golf (Phil mickelson) choked the life out of it and it took a 45 year who had guts to stand up and try to win, not just finish second place. Golf is dead.
sisadee wrote: 11h 29m ago
You should be.
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