A herniated disc, fractured rib, back soreness, partially torn tendon, partially torn meniscus, tendinitis, hernia, foot injury, stress fracture, torn labrum. No, it’s not an NRL injury report. It’s the list of some of the injuries players in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking have suffered in the past few years.
Fans and critics will interpret Woods’ first three starts in different ways but one thing seems hard to deny: there’s real suspense again when he tees it up.
Like many of his fellow professionals and others in the world of golf, Bubba Watson saw the mug shot, the one of a dishevelled and droop-eyed Tiger Woods that was taken after he was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Monday in Florida, and winced.
A shoeless Dustin Johnson falling down a small set of stairs and injuring his back on the eve of the first round of the Masters surely ranks as a freak, unfortunate incident. But how freak and unfortunate was it? Perhaps you need to compare it to other bizarre golf injuries in recent memory to put Read more…