Gymnastics and golf do not go together.
Joe Buck’s wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, just wants to get back to doing headstands after her husband drilled her in the ankle with a golf ball, which required surgery after complications with her nerve damage.
Buck revealed the “brutal truth” of what happened on July 7 while on a golf course in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, when his wife was doing a headstand just outside the tee box as she began doing her splits with her feet in the air.
With her body in a capitalized T shape, her ankle was directly in the line of fire when he says his Taylor Made golf ball drilled her ankle.
Here’s the truth @AdamSchefter the whole truth and nothing but the guilt-ridden brutal truth! My wife is one amazing, tough woman. And she has not for one second pinned this on me. Or added to my mental load. While I have. Fluke stuff. Probably lucky it wasn’t worse! pic.twitter.com/1SCEhJv3t7
— Joe Buck (@Buck) September 11, 2024
“She did a headstand at the end of the tee box for good luck and at the exact moment that I was teeing off, she decided with her feet in the air to do the splits, thereby dropping her right leg a little to the side, right in my line of fire,” Buck detailed in a playful video from his car with his wife sitting shotgun.
“I hit the golf ball, Taylor Made with little designs on it, into the inside of her right ankle and shattered it.”
“Shattered,” Michelle added for emphasis “Now I’m wearing this [showing off a big protective boot]”
“And now we’re getting surgery. Michelle is. Thanks to me,” Buck responded.
Buck is the play-by-play voice for “Monday Night Football,” while Buck-Beisner is a reporter for ESPN and the weekly telecast.
Buck-Beisner was previously a Broncos cheerleader, which helps explain her affinity for headstands.
“We did six weeks in a hard cast, and now we’ve done two and a half weeks in this [boot],” Michelle continued. “The cherry on top, not only did I get –– it’s not his fault, it was a freak accident –– but not only was it a shatter and an impact break, but there’s a nerve that runs right under your ankle bone through your foot called the tibial nerve that was severely damaged.”
Prior to this, Michelle adds that her doctors were recommending non-surgical things like fusions and nerve blocks, none of which appear to have worked.
The surgery, which “went well” on Thursday, was used to decompress the tibial nerve to get some blood flowing in that area.
Buck added that he feels incredibly guilty for the incident that has resulted in a brutal injury.
“Needless to say, my guilt is off the charts. I wake up still in the middle of the night hearing that sound and it makes me sick,” Buck said.
Michelle was supportive, saying it wasn’t his fault, but she wants to get back to normal and begin doing headstands again.
The two television journalists have been married since 2014.
