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In the past 12 years, surgeons have opened various parts of Tiger Woods 11 times. Ten of those 11 times were voluntary. He has terrible knees and a worse back. (And as a Class of ‘19 draftee into the Bad Back Franchise, I sympathize much more than I once might have.) This latest expedition into him, of course, as most of the world knows, was completely involuntary as a result of a devastating automobile accident. Bill Mallon is a former PGA golfer and an orthopedic surgeon at Duke Medical Center. (He also is an Olympic Historian of world renown). He put together a Twitter thread on Wednesday morning containing his informed speculation on the extent of Woods’s injuries based on the available public information. Much of the thread is unsettling, and it makes it clear that Woods is lucky to be alive. (The details about Woods’s possible “compartment syndrome” are especially unnerving.) The media attention is probably disproportionate, especially in the middle o