Tiger Woods injured and rushed to surgery after car wreck

Tiger Woods was injured when the automobile he was driving hurtled off a highway in a Los Angeles suburb and rolled over, sending {the golfing} legend to a hospital the place he was present process surgical procedure for “a number of” leg accidents.

Based on Los Angeles county police, no different autos have been concerned within the wreck, and the Los Angeles Occasions, citing unnamed regulation enforcement officers, reported that Woods’ automobile was travelling at a excessive charge of pace when it misplaced management.

Authorities didn’t instantly disclose the severity of his accidents, however Mark Steinberg, Woods’ agent, issued a press release disclosing he had been taken into surgical procedure for leg accidents.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division mentioned Woods was the motive force and sole occupant of a car concerned in a rollover collision round 7am native time, with harm important sufficient to require the usage of the so-called jaws of life to extricate the star golfer from the wreckage.

Footage of the crash website in Rancho Palos Verdes, south of LA airport, captured by local television station NBCLA confirmed a silver SUV rolled over off the facet of a boulevard with extreme harm to each the back and front of the car.

Woods, 45, is amongst golf’s all-time greats, tied for many profession wins on the PGA Tour and second in complete main championships behind Jack Nicklaus. After profitable the Masters Match on the age of 21 in 1997, he shortly turned probably the most well-known athletes on the earth, starring in promoting campaigns for Nike and turning into the driving power in golf’s resurgence in TV rankings and recognition.

A series of personal setbacks, together with an infidelity scandal, again accidents and a reckless driving conviction in 2017, diminished Woods’ presence on tour for years, although he completed one of sport’s most storied comebacks by profitable the 2019 Masters Match greater than a decade after his final main victory.

As authorities disclosed the severity of the accident, fellow gamers and tour officers supplied their finest needs and issues for Woods.

“Barbara and I simply heard about Tiger’s accident, and like everybody else, we’re deeply involved,” Nicklaus wrote on Twitter. “We need to supply him our heartfelt help and prayers at this tough time. Please be part of us in wishing Tiger a profitable surgical procedure and all the very best for a full restoration.”

“I’m sick to my abdomen”, mentioned fellow skilled golfer Justin Thomas on Tuesday, throughout a press convention for the WGC Workday Championship in Florida. “It hurts to see considered one of your closest mates get into an accident.”

Over the weekend, Woods hosted the Genesis Invitational Match in northern LA, the place he mentioned he was nonetheless recovering from a fifth again surgical procedure and couldn’t pinpoint a timeline for a return to play. 

Requested if he aimed to take part on this yr’s Masters, he appeared uncertain, saying: “I don’t know what the plan is.”