Can you imagine being the guy who cut open the golden knee? Heh - that rhymes with “Golden Tee”, have you ever played that game? I mean, if you’ve ever been to a skeezy bar you’d probably have had to have played the game (probably with a hooker or 55 year old biker or something) - but I digress.

Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday to repair the torn ligament, and his doctors said it was “highly unlikely” there would be any long-term effects. Like they’d say anything else anyway.

Basically the only news here is that Tiger’s surgery didn’t end up in the doctor sneezing and slicing into his cartilage or anything like that. It looks like the world’s #1 golfer will be back good as new next year, so long as he doesn’t have any setbacks. Also important is that the doctors (if they are to be believed) say that the procedure will not have any long term effects on his knee for the rest of his career.

So, with respects to Rick Reilly of ESPN, I wouldn’t expect Tiger to change his swing or become some meekish kitten of a golfer when he comes back - if anything I would think he would feel great that (in his own words) he was “free from pain for the first time in almost a decade”, and would absolutely eat the rest of the field alive next year.

That’s what I hope at least - but then again, I am an unabashed Tiger Woods homer.