What kind of injury did Tiger Woods sustain?”
At the US Open, Tiger Woods announced he would need to take the rest of the year off to undergo surgery on his left knee’s anterior cruciate ligament, which was torn. He had also played the tournament with a double stress fracture. Woods explained 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. “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
