Davis Love III undergoes successful open-heart surgery

Davis Love III is back home after undergoing open-heart surgery earlier this week to repair a leaky valve that was detected about 10 years ago. The surgery had been scheduled for some time.

CBS’s Jim Nantz shared that Love, 60, a 21-time Tour winner and the 1997 PGA Championship winner, was released this morning from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.

“I went in healthy and came out healthier,” Nantz recounted that Love said when they spoke on Saturday. Nantz added that Love stopped on his way home for his first rehab with Sea Island’s Randy Myers, the father-in-law of Andrew Novak.

Love is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and still competes on PGA Tour Champions and said in November that he’d like to break Mark Brooks’ record for the most starts on the PGA Tour. (Brooks has made 803; Love is stuck on 790.) Love missed most of last season after undergoing thumb surgery in April.

“Cow parts in my thumb and heart now,” he wrote to Golfweek in a text. “Hopefully hit it farther and no mooing!”

Good to see his sense of humor remains intact.

“He’ll be driving in March and putting in April,” Nantz said Love predicted. “Standing behind you Davis, Love III.”

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Love: "I went in healthy and came out healthier”