Yikes. I've read plenty of articles after Tiger Wooods' mesmerizing win at the U.S. Open--but none with this angle. Gwen Knapp of the San Francisco Chronicle argues:
Tiger Woods is an idiot. A mesmerizing, peerless, incandescent idiot.
If he'd used his head at all, he would never have entered the U.S. Open last week with a double stress fracture and a torn ligament in his left leg.
She then discusses football players, like Jerry Rice, who came back back from difficult ACL surgeries and had regrets:
The announcement on Wednesday confirmed the suspicion. He is more like a football player than we ever imagined.
"You never really, really get back to 100 percent," Jerry Rice said in a phone interview Wednesday.
Rice tore two knee ligaments - the ACL (like Woods) and the MCL (medial collateral ligament) - at the beginning of the 1997 49ers' season and stubbornly set a goal of returning in December, well ahead of the typical recovery schedule. He was 35, three years older than Woods is now. Rice met the goal, but the knee, weakened by the previous injuries, gave out in his first game back. The patella tendon ruptured on a touchdown catch, sending him to the operating room again.
"If I had known the consequences of it," Rice said, "I wouldn't have come back."
I understand the point she's making, but this is golf, not football. Tiger can work around this.
