Joe Buck, the play-by-play voice of ESPN's "Monday Night Football," likes to play golf. So does his wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, a reporter on the "MFN" pegame show who also enjoys dancing and is acrobatic.

So that made for a bad combination when the St. Louisans were on a golf course in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in July.

They tell the painful story in a post on social media:

"Michelle has been known to do headstands during the course of our courtship in marriage,” he says. “She did a headstand at the end of the tee box for good luck out and to my left. And at the exact moment that I was teeing off, she decided with her feet in the air, to do the splits ... right in my line of fire.”

His drive smashed into her right ankle, which was shattered.

"Freak accident," she says. "If you were having a competition you would never ever be able to do it. This was like God or the universe just directed this ball into right my ankle bone."

She said he spent six weeks in a hard cast and 2 1/2 more in a walking boot, but problems still existed — the tibial nerve, a key foot and ankle component, was damaged and could not be addressed while she was in the cast. Treatment began after that was removed, but she said "nothing has worked."

So she had an operation Wednesday in St. Louis to try to correct the problem.

"The surgery was a nerve compression," her husband told the Post-Dispatch on Thursday. "It went very well," adding that her bones have healed.

"Just can’t wait to get back on my two HEALTHY feet," she said in an Instagram post earlier in the week. "I cannot wait to run around with my kids. I cannot wait to get back to work. I cannot wait to drive. To dance. ... All of it. I CAN’T WAIT!!!!"

Joe Buck is remorseful about his role in her troubles.

"Needless to say, my guilt is off the charts," he said in the video. "I wake up still in the middle of the night hearing that sound (from the ball's impact on the ankle) and it makes me sick. It's a bad sound. It makes me absolutely sick. ... I love this woman, all I do is want to protect this woman and I hurt her with a golf ball."

She shakes her head no, reiterating that it's not his fault.

But he doesn't sound appeased.

"It's pretty sick and I feel terrible," he says in conclusion.

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