Tiger Woods in rollover car accident, sustained multiple leg injuries...

[Westerly Wood]

man, this is terrible news:

Tiger Woods Badly Injured In Car Crash, First Video of Him Driving Minutes Before

Tiger Woods was involved in a bad car accident in Ranchos Palos Verdes on Tuesday morning -- with officials requiring the jaws of life to free him from the vehicle.

www.tmz.com

 

[walrus]

He's had some tough moments, usually brought on by himself. I hope this wasn't another one, he seemed to be in a good place in his life. Luckily his kids weren't with him...

walrus

 

[dreadnut]

When you lose control of your vehicle, you are at fault, no matter the reason. He really smashed up his car. Glad no one else was injured.

I hope he can return to his golf game before too long, injuries tend to cause lingering issues, especially as we age..

 

[fronobulax]

When you lose control of your vehicle, you are at fault, no matter the reason.

I'm going to push back just a bit because there are one car accidents where, due to mechanical failure, no one can really tell the difference between the driver losing control and the driver losing the ability to control since the end result is pretty much the same. We could probably get through a six pack of a nice IPA from Michigan trying to assign fault in various scenarios involving a car and a deer.

But yeah I hope Tiger comes out on the other side of this all right.

 

[twocorgis]

You get the feeling that this could well be a career ending injury for him. He was already pretty busted up after five back surgeries, and now he's got multiple compound fractures in his legs. In many ways I feel bad for him, because he never really had a childhood, and that came back to bite him as an adult.

 

[Rebosbro]

He was interviewed the day before and his eyes were bloodshot and half closed. Issues with pain meds in the past. Reports are he seemed agitated when he left the hotel and left at a high rate off speed. Leg injury for a golfer is not good. What a talent he was but with some issues like a lot of us do. Hopes for a speedy recovery.
Paul

 

[walrus]

In many ways I feel bad for him, because he never really had a childhood, and that came back to bite him as an adult.

Agreed. His life was just like so many child actors who have crashed and burned. He actually came out of his childhood better than most, given the pressure on him from such a young age. Pressure from his father, and then subsequently from everyone that had a financial stake in his success. He's no Macaulay Culkin, thank God, and he seems to have a great relationship with his kids, so he came out of it OK. I'm sure he wised up a bit after his wife clubbed him with a 9-iron!

walrus

 

[twocorgis]

Agreed. His life was just like so many child actors who have crashed and burned. He actually came out of his childhood better than most, given the pressure on him from such a young age. Pressure from his father, and then subsequently from everyone that had a financial stake in his success. He's no Macaulay Culkin, thank God, and he seems to have a great relationship with his kids, so he came out of it OK. I'm sure he wised up a bit after his wife clubbed him with a 9-iron!

walrus

I always thought that if he had gotten all that stuff out of his system when most of us did, his marriage wouldn't have ended like that. On another note, you really have to wonder about his driving skills. He seems to ball up a lot of cars.

 

[dreadnut]

I wonder if he got ticketed.

 

[FNG]

Genesis GV-80....pretty nice ride. Wonder if he popped all ten airbags.

I love golf, and have loved watching Tiger Woods. But I have a sneaking suspicion he was medicated in some fashion. Recent back surgery, lots of down time, etc. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Golf won’t be the same without him. He made it exciting for those like me who don’t follow the sport. Amidst all his turmoil and strife, he won 82 tour events and 14 or 15 majors. His 2019 masters win was epic. Looks like that will be the end of a legendary career.

 

[twocorgis]

Golf won’t be the same without him. He made it exciting for those like me who don’t follow the sport. Amidst all his turmoil and strife, he won 82 tour events and 14 or 15 majors. His 2019 masters win was epic. Looks like that will be the end of a legendary career.

If it is, it's a great way to go out!

 

[Westerly Wood]

If it is, it's a great way to go out!

even i teared up when he won in 2019, the greatest golf event save for that one in ireland or england, i forget, where it all started. but the Masters is special, and he battled back for like 10 years and was old and in pain and still won. is not catching Jack really that big of a deal? i wonder. Jack is a classic. so no harm coming one shy of his maters record right?

Tiger is in a league all his own. he can ride off into sunset as being in the top 3 of greatest golfers ever to live. is that so bad?

 

[Rebosbro]

At St. Andrews

 

[davismanLV]

Rancho Palos Verdes is a coastal hilly peninsula south of Los Angeles with tons of hills and curves. NOT a good place to test your driving skills if you're incapacitated in any way. Lots of horses, too. This is a sad story. I hope he can recover from this without too much grief. Jeeze......

 

[davismanLV]

Tiger woods is the worst celebrity driver since Ryan Dunn.......

 

[dreadnut]

Now they're reporting he can't remember the accident. Evidently he had some kind of head injury too. Probably a lot of rehabilitaion in his future.

 

[matsickma]

On Sunday, the son of a guy who I went to grade school with from a little coal region town of 2000 peoplein NE PA won the Genesis PGA tour at Rivera. Max Homa, son of John Homa from Nesquehoning, PA went into the 18th tied and pulled it off!
Tiger Wood presented the Rivera Trophy to 30 year old Max Homa. His dad always seemed destined for more than small town life and after graduating from Penn State headed to NYC and an acting career. He eventually moved out to Hollywood and became a acting coach. I didn't know know he took an interest in golf and exposed his young son to the sport around 2 years of age.
Anyway Max was quite excited the trophy was presented to him by Tiger.
Just wanted to give a call out to Max and his father!
M

 

[silverfox103]

Great golfer, lousy human being. No love here!

Tom

 

[bluesypicky]

Now they're reporting he can't remember the accident. Evidently he had some kind of head injury too. Probably a lot of rehabilitaion in his future.

I like Tiger as much as anybody for his remarkable accomplishments and his kinda "desnobing"of golf, but I'm not buying the memory loss here.
We might never know, and I might be wrong, but I am strongly inclined to believe he was doing something he was not supposed to do in that car, aside from driving at 2 or 3 times the speed limit. A car doesn't suddenly decide to jump over the median and roll over a distance of a few hundred feet until it comes to a rest with the wheels up in the air, on its own.
If he WASN'T doing anything wrong, and this is just the result of his driving "skills", then someone in charge needs to consider revoking his DL fast, before this happens again with the addition of an innocent by-stander's death or injury.
Hope I'm proven wrong, but claiming not remembering anything after the first medic on the scene (minutes after the crash) already confirmed that he was conscious and even told him who he was, rules out the "stroke" or passing out" of some sort that could have explained the crash and associated memory loss.
Wishing him a fast recovery.