The question resembled something you’d ask Evel Knievel as he lay entombed in various stookies. “The body has 206 bones, so do you know each one of them now?,” said a golf reporter to Tiger Woods. “No, but I know the ones that hurt,” responded Woods with a smile. Or was it a grimace?
The breaks and fractures Woods suffered in that frightful car accident back in 2021 have been well-documented. There are no bones cracking with his latest ailment but a debilitating dose of plantar fasciitis – an extremely sair fit to you and I – is a consequence of all the other sair bits that have ravaged his ailing frame in recent years.
This week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas was supposed to be the tentative start of yet another Woods comeback but his late withdrawal from the event he hosts was a sobering reminder of his fragility. “I can hit the ball, but I can’t walk,” he lamented with the glum countenance of Les Dawson opening a disappointing bank statement.
