Tiger Woods limped and winced to his 14th major over the weekend and while most people were impressed by his effort, some doubted the severity of his injury. Fellow player Retief Goosen is in the latter group. Retief spoke with British newspapers and said it looked like Tiger was playing to the cameras at the U.S. Open.
“It just seemed when he hit bad shots his knee was in pain and on his good shots he wasn’t.”
Asked if he felt Woods could have been faking it, Goosen said: “I think so.”
“You see when he made the putts and he went down on his knees and shouting ‘yeah’, his knee wasn’t sore. Nobody knows if he was just showing off or if he was really injured, and I believe if he was injured he would not have played. But it was a great win.”
I like Goosen’s I think the sonofabitch faked the whole thing but it was a great win approach. Slam a guy and then clean it up with a throwaway compliment. When pressed about his comments Retief said he was just kidding.. Sort of.
“I was being light-hearted.”
“No one but Tiger knows how badly hurt he was. But if he was really badly hurt, he would have withdrawn wouldn’t he?”
Not that Tiger cares but it’s gonna take season ending surgery for Retief Goosen to believe Tiger played 91 holes on a bad leg. After reading Goosen’s comments Tiger will probably put his good foot knee deep in Retief’s ass the next time they’re paired together.
Tiger Woods’ official statement on season ending surgery. Courtesy of TigerWoods.com
