{"id":6799,"date":"2011-05-19T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T19:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2011-05-19T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:53:51","slug":"tiger-no-knee-damage-open-return-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"Tiger: No Knee Damage, Open Return Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL \u2014 <strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong> says he didn&#8217;t do any more damage to his left leg at The Players Championship and expects to play the U.S. Open next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woods<\/strong> made it only nine holes last week at The Players &#8211; his shortest tournament ever &#8211; when he withdrew after nine holes because of what he described as a chain reaction of pain from his left knee to left Achilles and tightening in his calf. He shot 42 on the front nine.<\/p>\n<p>On his website Monday, <strong>Woods<\/strong> said he irritated the knee and Achilles without making them worse. He said doctors have advised rest, cold water therapy and soft tissue treatment, which he said he already had been receiving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aggravating my injury is very disappointing,&#8221; <strong>Woods<\/strong> said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll do whatever is necessary to play in the U.S. Open, and I&#8217;m hopeful I can be there to compete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Open is June 16-19 at Congressional, a course on which Woods won in 2009 at the AT&amp;T National.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL \u2014 Tiger Woods says he didn&#8217;t do any more damage to his left leg at The Players Championship and expects to play the U.S. Open next month. Woods made it only nine holes last week at The Players &#8211; his shortest tournament ever &#8211; when he withdrew after nine holes because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}