Tiger injured in car crash..

[Ethan]

Hope he recovers quickly.

Interested to see a couple of people on here predict he'll be back on the course. When I read a report this morning about the injuries he'd suffered and the resultant surgery, my first thought was "There's no coming back to top level golf after that". Just speculation on my part and hope I'm wrong obviously. But it doesn't sound good.

He was already only playing between bouts of injury or ongoing surgical repairs. Damaged feet and ankles, let alone open fractures of the tib and fib on top add up to him being lucky if he can walk without pain, never mind anchor a full driver swing. Footballers 20 years younger than Woods who get a tib/fib fracture are usually out for a season.

 

[Jimaroid]

It doesn't look good. From his own Twitter PR posting, a source that has always downplayed the severity of his injuries, I think it's safe to interpret that he's lucky to still have a lower leg at all.

As for the future. Who knows but I'm going to predict it goes one of either two ways.

1. Go out on a high. He accepts this is the end of his playing career but he's going out with a recent Masters win and can be considered to have ended on a high.
2. Do a Seve. He gets back to some fitness in the next two years, comes back can't compete and everyone suffers his public deterioration and refusal to give-up on the course over the next 5 years.

#1 is the sensible thing to do. But it's Tiger, so likely he'll take #2.

 

[Ethan]

It doesn't look good. From his own Twitter PR posting, a source that has always downplayed the severity of his injuries, I think it's safe to interpret that he's lucky to still have a lower leg at all.

As for the future. Who knows but I'm going to predict it goes one of either two ways.

1. Go out on a high. He accepts this is the end of his playing career but he's going out with a recent Masters win and can be considered to have ended on a high.
2. Do a Seve. He gets back to some fitness in the next two years, comes back can't compete and everyone suffers his public deterioration and refusal to give-up on the course over the next 5 years.

#1 is the sensible thing to do. But it's Tiger, so likely he'll take #2.

He might try option 3, rehabilitate his public and family image building on sympathy for his injuries, throw himself into his foundation and then in a couple of years, go back to where he was always planned to go - that which is forbidden for discussion in the forum. No, not chippers or iron head covers, the p-word.

 

[Captainron]

He might try option 3, rehabilitate his public and family image building on sympathy for his injuries, throw himself into his foundation and then in a couple of years, go back to where he was always planned to go - that which is forbidden for discussion in the forum. No, not chippers or iron head covers, the p-word.

The oldest profession in the world.

Think he’s tried that before? Didn’t end well

 

[fenwayrich]

Really? Nike isn't an accepted faith system.

Nike is the Goddess of victory in mythology. I expect that some golfers offer up a silent prayer to her as they line up a four footer on 18

 

[Jimaroid]

He might try option 3, rehabilitate his public and family image building on sympathy for his injuries, throw himself into his foundation and then in a couple of years, go back to where he was always planned to go - that which is forbidden for discussion in the forum. No, not chippers or iron head covers, the p-word.

Yep. Related to #1, exiting on a high would gift him great future opportunities, more than I think beating Jack's record ever could have.

Of course, we may also need to consider option #4, but that may depend on witnesses and toxicology. My initial prediction is based on the assumption that he was sober and I believe he was (mostly) but I can't help but fear those opiate painkillers that the Americans love so much may have had a hand in this too. We'll see.

 

[sunshine]

Hope he recovers quickly.

Interested to see a couple of people on here predict he'll be back on the course. When I read a report this morning about the injuries he'd suffered and the resultant surgery, my first thought was "There's no coming back to top level golf after that". Just speculation on my part and hope I'm wrong obviously. But it doesn't sound good.

Darth Vader recovered from worse injuries. Robocop too. Maybe we'll see Tiger return as some sort of part man / part machine. He's going to have a lot of metal in him, just as well he always travels by private jet.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Interesting that it’s apparently not okay to consider Reed might be a cheat over his recent incident because he has previous, but okay to think that that opiates played a part in this incident because Tiger has previous. ?

Hope he makes a good recovery.

 

[Canary_Yellow]

Sounds to me like injuries of a severity where elite level golf is a (distant) secondary concern compared to being able to walk and run around with his kids and generally live an ordinary life.

 

[Imurg]

Tiger's been on pretty hefty painkillers for a while now, that's, I think, fairly obvious.
As such he will have had some in his system, especially as it was early morning and he would likely have had some before he got in thencar.
Whether they're a contribution to the crash, time will tell.
But, as said, just walking and getting mobile might be as far as it goes.
Top level golfers are rare after 45 years old, let alone over 45 with dodgy back, legs and ankles....
Tiger's always been an exception to the rule but I feel this could be the beginning of the end.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Hogan recovered from serious injuries in a near-death car crash - but he didn't swing the golf club like Tiger and the competition back then didn't require him to try.

 

[Imurg]

Hogan recovered from serious injuries in a near-death car crash - but he didn't swing the golf club like Tiger and the competition back then didn't require him to try.

He was also 9 years younger and, I'm guessing, hadn't had multiple surgical procedures in the last 10 years....

 

[Jimaroid]

He was also 9 years younger and, I'm guessing, hadn't had multiple surgical procedures in the last 10 years....

And received different types of bone fractures in a different set of bones, and to my knowledge Hogan didn't have any metal plates, pins or rods put in.

Apart from that, yeah, they both played golf and were in a car crash.

 

[pokerjoke]

Tiger's been on pretty hefty painkillers for a while now, that's, I think, fairly obvious.
As such he will have had some in his system, especially as it was early morning and he would likely have had some before he got in thencar.
Whether they're a contribution to the crash, time will tell.
But, as said, just walking and getting mobile might be as far as it goes.
Top level golfers are rare after 45 years old, let alone over 45 with dodgy back, legs and ankles....
Tiger's always been an exception to the rule but I feel this could be the beginning of the end.

Your first statements are total guess work mate,unless your privvi to his doctor records? or his prescription.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

And received different types of bone fractures in a different set of bones, and to my knowledge Hogan didn't have any metal plates, pins or rods put in.

Apart from that, yeah, they both played golf and were in a car crash.

Hogan still faced a real struggle to get back and it wasn't at all clear that he'd be able to...so hopefully Tiger will at least be able to play recreationally with his lad if not competitively.

 

[Imurg]

Your first statements are total guess work mate,unless your privvi to his doctor records? or his prescription.

Didn't he say as much when he was interviewed at the weekend..?

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Reading through the statements it looks like Woods is very lucky to not lose his leg

He is a very mentally tough person so there is no doubt he will be thinking when can he play again but after all his injuries I hope for his sake that it’s time to stop putting his body through what’s needed to stay at the top

It’s a blow for golf that he won’t be playing again for the foreseeable future as he has been at the forefront of golf in the modern society

There are obviously going to be a lot of rumours after his previous issues with painkillers but I would be surprised if there were issues this time and I think they have already said nothing was detected in his system and it’s prob either just an accident where he has had to swerve to avoid something.

Woods appeared to change over the past 10 years to become a more “grounded” person and it’s going to be a shame to see him not tee up at Augusta

 

[pokerjoke]

Didn't he say as much when he was interviewed at the weekend..?

If that was the case why says things like “ I think” and “likely “.
Not really having a go at you personally.
I watched the news this morning after his operations and not one report has given a full report on what happened or wether he was dosed up.
However one did mention he hadn’t been drinking.
It just amazes me that a forum has so many experts in many fields they are obviously no good at.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Reading through the statements it looks like Woods is very lucky to not lose his leg

He is a very mentally tough person so there is no doubt he will be thinking when can he play again but after all his injuries I hope for his sake that it’s time to stop putting his body through what’s needed to stay at the top

It’s a blow for golf that he won’t be playing again for the foreseeable future as he has been at the forefront of golf in the modern society

There are obviously going to be a lot of rumours after his previous issues with painkillers but I would be surprised if there were issues this time and I think they have already said nothing was detected in his system and it’s prob either just an accident where he has had to swerve to avoid something.

Woods appeared to change over the past 10 years to become a more “grounded” person and it’s going to be a shame to see him not tee up at Augusta

I've not been a great fan of Woods over the years - unfairly so as that feeling was driven almost 100% by what I considered hugely excessive fan and media adulation. But more recently and since his 'comeback' I did sense a change in him - and definitely more humility and acceptance of his limitations - and with that change I found I could ignore the stupidity of others towards him and found myself actually rooting for him - when in the past that was rare.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Darth Vader recovered from worse injuries. Robocop too. Maybe we'll see Tiger return as some sort of part man / part machine. He's going to have a lot of metal in him, just as well he always travels by private jet.

Only a problem at Liverpool Airport.

For 41 years I have had plates and bolts holding my left arm together (hence my forum name) .

During that time I have flown using nearly 30 international and 9 in the British Isles.

Only at Liverpool did I set the scanner going.