Two days after his dramatic victory at the United States Open, Tiger Woods announced he would miss the rest of the 2008 season following reconstructive surgery to repair damage to the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Woods said in a news release on his Web site Wednesday that he ruptured the ligament last summer while running near his home in Florida. Rather than have reconstructive surgery at the time, he decided to manage the pain and his schedule to continue playing. But the pain continued, and Woods had an arthroscopic procedure two days after the Masters in April. While recovering from that operation, the release said, Woods sustained a double stress fracture of his left tibia.
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