Playing Through Pain

How did Tony Finau finish the Masters?

- Ron Kaspriske

Watching the video of golfer Tony Finau partially dislocating a left-ankle bone—and then reorienting it—while playing in the Masters Par-3 Contest might be as fascinating as it is macabre. Especially knowing what we know now. It was one thing for Finau (above) to stand up and hobble off the course after hurting himself celebrating a hole-in-one; it was a whole other thing to come back the next day and shoot a four-under-par 68 in the first round of the tournament.

Finau returned for the final three rounds, too, and somehow finished tied for 10th on an ankle that looked like it was hobbled by Kathy Bates in “Misery.”