Tiger Woods said on Friday he was looking forward to having reconstructive knee surgery so he can finally feel healthy for the first time in a decade.
Woods played through the pain barrier to secure his 14th major title at the US Open on Monday.
He announced two days later he had been playing with a torn ligament and two stress fractures in his left leg and would require surgery ruling him out for the rest of the year.
Woods said today he did not regret playing with the injury.
"I was in bad shape going in and came out in just the same shape," he told ABC's Good Morning America. "So it will be nice to finally get fixed and feel healthy, which I haven't felt in probably a decade."
Woods won his third US Open at Torrey Pines in a 19-hole playoff with fellow American Rocco Mediate.
It was Woods's first tournament in two months since having surgery to clean out cartilage in the same knee.
Before the tournament Woods said he knew his knee was not 100 per cent, but he was determined to compete.
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