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Tiger Woods Withdraws From Players Championship

05/12/2011 9:14 am 0 comments

Source: Cameron Morfit / Golf Magazine Magazine

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The problems continue for Tiger Woods, only this time it’s his livelihood, not his image, in the balance.

Woods withdrew after shooting 42 on the front nine at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday, citing pain in his left leg that has plagued him intermittently throughout his career.

“The knee acted up and then the Achilles followed after that, and then the calf started cramping up,” said Woods, who triple-bogeyd the par-4 fourth hole and made three bogeys and no birdies. “Everything started getting tight, so it’s just a whole chain reaction.”

The injury for Woods raises red flags because his knee has been operated on four times, and he reinjured it while hitting a shot from under a tree at the Masters last month. The exact diagnosis was a grade-one mild medial collateral ligament sprain to his left knee and a mild strain to his left Achilles’ tendon, both suffered while hitting a shot from pine straw on the 17th hole of his third round at Augusta. In an effort to let it heal, he did not enter the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow last week, an event he normally plays. He sounded optimistic about the injury earlier this week at Sawgrass.

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