Originally Posted by kane

Here is the difference (and I am a big hockey fan and think those guys are some of toughest people on the planet). In hockey you have help. you have other players on the ice with you and in a 60 minute game you will maybe be on the ice for 12-15 minutes of it. If you mess up or make a mistake often there is someone to back you up. A defenseman or a goalie can bail you out if you let a guy go by or if you take a bad penalty your teammates can help you. It is not short order playing that time and doing anything with a broken ankle. But golf is an individual sport. So he went out there with 2 stress fractures and a torn ACL and beat 150 other golfers. He doesn't get a shift off. He doesn't get someone else to take a shot for him. He played every shot of every hole and alone beat over 150 of the best golfers in the world. Whenever you swing a golf club it puts stress on your lead leg so he knew the pain was going to be there but had the mental strength to set that aside and make shot after shot. If he screws up, nobody is there to help.