{"id":30203,"date":"2026-05-30T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ian-poulter-english-golfer-needs-surgery-after-suffering-knee-injury-hopping-up-two-steps\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:31:07","slug":"ian-poulter-english-golfer-needs-surgery-after-suffering-knee-injury-hopping-up-two-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ian-poulter-english-golfer-needs-surgery-after-suffering-knee-injury-hopping-up-two-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Poulter: English golfer needs surgery after suffering knee injury &#8216;hopping up two steps&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He admitted he was not sure he would be able to compete in Korea, but said walking was more painful than playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bizarrely I have no sensation throughout the golf swing that there&#8217;s anything wrong with it,&#8221; added the Englishman. &#8220;I sense it when I&#8217;m walking downhill, steep downhills. I&#8217;m going to have to strengthen that leg, but it&#8217;s not affecting my golf in any way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just have to be reminding myself that I can&#8217;t go and play padel, tennis or do anything stupid or hop up steps like I did a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Walking in straight lines and being super sensible is not something I&#8217;m used to doing. I feel good, the body feels good. We&#8217;ll deal with that at some stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poulter has yet to taste victory at an individual LIV Golf event since joining in 2022, but has 17 professional wins, including three on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is not the first golfer to suffer a freak injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number one Scottie Scheffler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cly2x1zdwywo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">missed the first two weeks<\/a> of the 2025 PGA Tour season after undergoing surgery on a hand injury he sustained while cooking Christmas dinner, which left him with a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rory McIlroy also had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/33407734\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">miss the 2015 Open<\/a> after he ruptured ankle ligaments while playing five-a-side football with his friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c707g7exgyko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He admitted he was not sure he would be able to compete in Korea, but said walking was more painful than playing. &#8220;Bizarrely I have no sensation throughout the golf swing that there&#8217;s anything wrong with it,&#8221; added the Englishman. &#8220;I sense it when I&#8217;m walking downhill, steep downhills. I&#8217;m going to have to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30205,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions\/30205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}