My left knee has been sore for 10 to 12 years. It will be nice to finally have a healthy leg. The doctors have assured me that my long-term health will be a hell of a lot better than it's been over the last decade. I'm really looking forward to that.

Doctors used a tendon from his right hamstring to rebuild the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that finally snapped while jogging on a golf course last July.

Woods, who is in a brace and on crutches, said he most likely would not be able to play in the AT&T National, which starts Thursday, because the knee is swollen and his doctors told him to avoid planes.

But who knows? I don't really listen to doctors all that well, anyway.