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This looks like it really hurt.

US SKI STAR Bode Miller injured his wife Morgan while they were playing golf, smashing a line drive shot just above her left eye that produced a bloody gash and deep bruises and swelling.

The incident took place Wednesday and was detailed on Thursday in Twitter postings by Miller and his wife, a beach volleyball player who married Miller in October. One showed her injured left eye at a San Diego hospital.

“I’m not feeling so hot. Line drive to the face today with a golf ball from my darling husband. I still love him but ouch,” she posted in a Twitter message.

Miller posted the news on Twitter with the hashtag #worstfeelingever and later announced that she was all right after surgery.

This is what she looked like before the surgery:

Image via Morganebeck on Instagram

“She’s a trooper, the docs did a great job, thanks UCSDHealth,” Miller posted Thursday. “she is doing Ok, surgery went well, should be 100%. Thanks.”

Both Miller and his wife thanks sunglasses manufacturer Kaenon for frames and lenses that took the impact of Miller’s misguided line drive shot.

“Thanks @Kaenon for saving my wifes eye. An amazing lense and frame to take a 160mph line drive direct hit and not shatter,” Miller tweeted.

“By absorbing a 160mph line drive I only got 50+ stitches instead of losing my eye lucky,” Morgan Miller tweeted.

Morgan Miller said she felt better Thursday afternoon.

“Feeling better today. Still can’t see out off left eye but I am getting some feeling back in my face.

“Also a huge thank u 2 everyone wishing me a speedy recovery. I have my husband by my side listening 2 all ur suggestions so keep them coming”

Bode Miller, the 2005 and 2008 World Cup overall champion and a five-time Olympic medalist, says he plans to return to competition in time to compete at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

With his wife recovering well, he also was able to joke that it was not an errant golf shot that struck his wife.

“it wasn’t really errant,” he tweeted. “I was trying to not hit the tree she was hiding behind, and I didn’t.”

(C) AFP, 2012

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