I had an ACL surgery on my right knee back in the day – this is not something you bounce back from quickly – even being a super healthy athlete like Tiger is. If the ACL (the ligament that connects through the center of the knee from upper outside bone to lower inside bone and sort of holds everything together..) If you injure it bad enough (like I did bending my leg sideways in a motocross crash) it severs the ligament and then the ligament shrivels up and disappears (if you delay fixing it like I did). Then your knee has nothing holding it together. When any sideways pressure is applied to your knee the bones pops out of place (like Mel Gibson’s shoulder in that movie Lethal Weapon…) Hurts like heck when it happens and when you have to pop it back in ouch.

What they do is take a sliver of that muscle that is covering / lower then your knee cap (that spot where the doctor taps with a rubber triangle mallet to check your bounce or whatever the hell) and then they fish that sliver through your knee and drywall screw it into each bone outside top and inside bottom. My scar is about 8 inches on the inside/center part of my knee and 4 inches on the outside/side. Took a few weeks before they even removed the staples. I don’t remember how long it took before I could bend my knee again.

For me, because it was my right leg – I would have been able to play golf pretty quickly – but the left knee – no way with the twisting pressure of a golf swing. I was on crutches for what seemed like an entire semester of college doing phys therapy.

Good news is that knee I had fixed is way better then my other one and is as good as new. They really fix it 100%.

For his front leg – I bet he’ll be back hitting balls in less than 3 months and back on tour in under 6.

As for that fracture tibia stuff – I don’t know – from my personal experience bones take forever to heal themselves of a fracture.