ESPN's Joe Buck broke his wife's ankle while playing golf

A leisurely day on the golf course ended with an ESPN commentator Joe Buck and his wife, Michelle Beisner-Buckand made a surprise visit to the emergency room.

While the couple – who have been married since 2014 – were playing golf in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in July, they were involved in a bizarre accident. Beisner-Buck decided to do a headstand, something she has done “many times throughout her marriage,” according to her husband, but things took a dangerous turn.

“She did a headstand at the end of the tee box for luck, to my left,” Buck said in a video posted via X on Wednesday, Sept. 11. “Right as I was teeing off, she decided to do a split with her feet in the air. She let her right leg fall a little to the side, right in my line of fire.”

While his wife's legs were in the air, Buck's ball flew precisely “into the inside of her right ankle and shattered it.”

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The veteran sports commentator described the incident as “a completely crazy accident,” but still felt great remorse.

“Needless to say, I feel immense guilt,” Buck said. “I still wake up in the middle of the night when I hear that noise. It makes me sick. It was a bad noise.”

Beisner-Buck, feature reporter for ESPN's Monday Night Footballsat next to her husband in the video and managed to survive the whole painful ordeal with a clear conscience.

“If you were competing, you would never be able to do that,” she said. “It was like God or the universe had directed that ball right into my ankle.”

After six weeks in a cast and two and a half weeks in a walking boot, Beisner-Buck explained why the rehabilitation process was so strenuous.

“It was not just a splintering and an impact, [but] “There's a nerve that runs right under your ankle called the tibial nerve,” she explained. “It runs right under your ankle through your foot. It's been severely damaged.”

After trying various non-surgical treatments, Beisner-Buck complained that “nothing helped.” Ultimately, she was forced to undergo surgery to decompress her tibial nerves.

“We're hoping that this will free up some space so that the blood can circulate in my ankle,” she continued outside the surgery center. “So that my nerves can start working again and regenerate and I can get back to normal and do the things I like to do, like headstands.”

Beisner-Buck gave an update on Friday, September 13, posting a photo of her right leg propped up in bed on her Instagram story.

“Day 2. After surgery,” she wrote under the photo. “Feet up. Head down.”