Woods gets a new lease of life
Still only 31, Woods has been unable to play the game he loves for the past two years because of injury. When the surgeon who operated on his cruciate ligament in 2001 told him that he would be limping for life within 12 months if he didnât quit, he took the only course of action open to him. âAnyway, I knew I wasnât the same player. The gaps I could get through the previous season werenât there for me any longer; my knee wasnât up to it,â he accepts.
Hanging up the boots hurt and hurt badly, he readily admits, but he is also glad to be able to continue life within the game which he played with distinction in the colours of Blackrock College, Leinster, London Irish, Harlequins and, of course, Ireland.
