Not only will Tiger Woods not be playing with Tim Tebow in next month’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, but the Broncos’ star quarterback won’t be on the tee at all. It seems that when New England ended Denver’s season with a 45-10 spanking a week and a half ago, they also knocked Tebow out of the lineup at Pebble.
While Tebow played through rib, chest, and lung injuries in his team’s divisional-round loss at Gillette Stadium January 14, the afflictions were serious enough to keep him from accepting an invitation to hit 350-yard drives in the Pebble event slated for February 9-February 12.
"Due to the injuries, it looks like he's a no-go," tourney director Steve Worthy told the Monterey Herald on Tuesday,
Denver’s back-up QB, Kyle Orton, warmed up after Tebow sustained a particularly nasty hit at the beginning of the third quarter, but the starter finished the game. That, despite a bruised lung, a torn cartilage where his first rib attaches to his sternum, and fluid buildup in his pleural cavity, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Tebow will not require surgery and his wounds were not severe enough to keep him from belting out a song with country music star Brad Paisley on January 22.
But while there will be no Tebow Time at Pebble, there will be plenty of NFLers on hand should a scrimmage break out. Before Woods confirmed he would join his old sidekick, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, at Pebble, rumors had swirled that Tebow would team up with golf’s former No. 1. And despite sustaining his own brutal hit from Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Lewis during last week’s AFC Championship game, Patriots QB Tom Brady was still in the field at Pebble, as was his coach Bill Belichick -- both of whom will trade the gridiron for 3-irons four days after the Pats’ rematch with the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI.
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