Instead of responding with a medical report explaining his knee condition, which turned out to be a torn MCL, the Bears PR staff clammed up, and others wrote the story and made the team and the player look bad.
McGinley, who sank the winning putt in the 2002 Ryder Cup, started having knee problems as a 19-year-old when he broke his left knee-cap playing gaelic football, an injury that turned him towards golf.