Then on the cliffs above the Pacific Ocean, he defied reason. Playing with two stress fractures in his tibia, on a knee so unstable that the femur, tibia and fibula were rubbing against one another, with pain etched on a face set like stone, Woods went 91 holes, beat Rocco Mediate, won his 14th major championship and headed to season-ending surgery days later. “Really, there is no way I should have won,” he said. Maybe he should also have won his 10th Player of the Year trophy. He did not think so. While he was away, Padraig Harrington won the British Open and the PGA. Among those voting for Harrington was Tiger Woods, who will be back.