Injuries Sideline Tiger Woods For Rest of PGA Season

It was simply astounding watching Tiger Woods do everything but crawl around Torrey Pines and win the US Open on the 91st hole of the tournament in sudden death over Rocco Mediate. We saw the limp. We saw the grimaces. We knew that he had just had arthroscopic surgery on his knee and was back sooner than we expected, but what we didn't know is that his medical condition was far worse than he ever let on.

He was playing the tournament with a torn ACL and a double stress fracture of his tibia, which will require season ending surgery and rehabilitation.

Tiger Woods is done for the year, but not without one last major that he said might have been his best ever.

Woods explained why Wednesday when he revealed he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left knee that he injured 10 months ago.

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.

And he still won.

That, right there folks, is why Tiger Woods is the most impressive golfer on the planet.

Imagine being another golfer competing in a tournament with Tiger and knowing that even on Tiger's worst days - playing with broken bones and a torn ACL, he still beat you. How demoralizing is that?

And the only thing that will keep Tiger from becoming the best golfer in the history of game are injuries such as the one that will keep him from attending a Major for the first time in his career. Still, he remains on a pace to shatter the all time record for majors in a career held by Jack Nicklaus.