Tiger Woods’ game after surgery may be pure physics

Woods’ swing has been the envy of golfers around the world ever since he burst onto the professional scene in 1996.

His action is pure efficiency, combining hip, shoulder and wrist motion to exert the greatest possible force on the ball.

Pure efficiency? Does that make him the Carnot of golf. Perhaps we should refer to the swing as the “Woods cycle.”

The applied physics of his swing propels the club head at an estimated 125 mph at the point of impact with the ball but it also concentrates intense and repeated kinetic energy on his left knee.

Ooh, concentrated intense and repeated kinetic energy? That made me wince, but not from ligament damage.

Much of the rest of the article is about biology and medicine. I don’t know how badly mangled that is.