Tiger Woods walked tenderly out of Torrey Pines with a U.S. Open trophy he was destined to win on a left leg worse than anyone imagined. A group of children called out to him and Woods looked over and waved. It turned out to be a most symbolic gesture. So long, Tiger. See you next year. Woods revealed Wednesday he has been playing for at least 10 months with a torn ligament in his left knee, and that he suffered a double stress fracture in his left leg two weeks before the U.S. Open. He... Read more

SAN DIEGO (AP) -Powerless to put Tiger Woods away and exhausted from this U.S. Open that would not end, Rocco Mediate plopped down above bunker on the 18th green, crisscrossed his legs and scribbled down his score. The 91st hole would have to wait. Woods, who had just birdied No. 18 to force a playoff for the second straight day, chuckled as the 45-year-old Mediate caught his breath. Mediate's quest to become the oldest golfer to win a major came to a crashing end on the first hole of sudden... Read more

SAN DIEGO - It's as self-evident as it can be, the fact that golf isn't like football or hockey or something. You see football players in big casts, playing on, and hockey players with gashes in their face, stitching fresh from a battlefield surgeon and cotton up their nose to keep the blood from messing up their uniforms and the ice. And so it goes in many sports. But golfers function like windup toys, if at all, with any kind damage or pain, such is the demand of the golf swing for harmony and... Read more