Woods speaks for first time since surgery, unsure of return

alen1 · Jun 30, 2008

On when he thinks he will be back:

"I really don't know," Woods said during a conference call to promote his AT&T National, a tournament near Washington, D.C., that he hosts but will be unable to attend. "We'll have to see how this thing heals and everyone heals at a different rate. Some six months, some at nine and some at 12. To be honest with you, no one really knows until we start the rehab process and see how this thing goes."
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On the ACL :

"My ACL wasn't all that great to begin with," he said. "There wasn't a whole lot left. You need to train and develop your hamstring and glutes as much as possible to hold it. Everyone was surprised it lasted as long as it did."

But despite playing well through the early part of the 2008 season -- victories in his first four events -- the knee got worse. Woods had arthroscopic surgery on April 15, two days after finishing second at the Masters.

"That was to get me through the rest of the '08 season," he said. "And then have it [reconstructive surgery] done after the '08 season. [But] I developed stress fractures and decided to bag it for the rest of the year."

Those stress fractures developed sometime while rehabbing from the April 15 surgery.

"I didn't play the Memorial because of that," Woods said. "I basically couldn't practice. Couldn't play more than nine holes. After dealing with that, I decided to make the U.S. Open my last event of this season, no matter how it turned out."
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On the stress fracture:

That pain was apparently due to the stress fractures more than the knee, which Woods said has been troublesome for years.

"I've been trying to adjust over the years to alleviate some of the stress I do put on my left leg," he said. "My left knee has been sore for 10 or 12 years. It'll be nice to finally have a healthy leg. My doctors have assured me my long-term health will be better than it's been."
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