An MRI has revealed that there will be no long term problems resulting from Tiger Woods' neck injury. The injury caused Woods to withdraw from the Tournament Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass last week and brought more troublesome media attention on the world number 1. Some had speculated that the neck injury may have been connected to the car crash Woods was involved in last December, which opened the flood gates on a series of marital infidelities and caused his extended absense from the game. This neck injury, however, will hopefully have Woods back in the game sooner than the last one did.
Rest will be the best medicine for Woods, and it is unlikely that he will tee up at the Memorial Tournament, his next scheduled start. That tournament is two weeks out from the U.S. Open and would have been good preparation for the second major of the year. Now it is anyones guess whether Woods will be there at Pebble Beach, a venue where he has won the U.S. Open before.
The most analysed man in sport needs some good news, and although this is little consolation from the previous weeks of stress and frustration, it is good news nonetheless. Now Woods and his minders must set about finding a replacement for his swing coach Hank Haney, who severed ties with Woods on Monday. There is a possiblity that Woods will go it alone for once. Coaches are not essential in golf like they are in other sports, and Haney has described Woods as the most knowledable golfer he knows, "he knows what he needs to do and he'll be able to figure it out".
If Woods only knew how to fix his personal life like his golf swing, then we might see the old Tiger back sooner than we thought.
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