US Open champ Tiger Woods will miss the rest of the 2008 PGA season due to damaged ligaments in his left knee, according to his personal website.
Woods is scheduled to have surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee – the same knee he had surgery on in April. Additionally, Woods suffered a “double stress fracture'” in the tibia, the bigger bone, of his lower left leg while rehabilitating from that surgery. The ligament tear occurred while Woods was running in the weeks after the 2007 British Open, according to a statement on Woods’ website.
“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. Doctors assured him there “will be no long-term” effects.
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