“My number one goal at the moment: to walk alone”: Tiger Woods, seriously injured on the road three months ago, spoke of his “painful” rehabilitation, without talking about a possible return to competition, in a brief interview with “Golf Digest”.
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“My rehabilitation keeps me busy. I do my routine exercises every day and am focusing on my number one goal right now: walking on my own. I’m taking one step at a time, ”said Woods in the very first, short interview since the Feb. 23 accident in California, which left him with several open fractures to his right leg.
Injuries “which have absolutely nothing to have” in terms of pain compared to what he may have suffered during his career, he who has notably undergone five back operations, including a perilous fusion of the lumbar vertebrae in 2017.
“I understand better what the rehabilitation process involves because of my past injuries, but this is more painful than anything I have known,” he said.
“I had so much support from people, it helped me enormously,” added the winner of 15 Grand Slam titles, who however refused to answer the question of whether he could replay at golf.
On Tuesday, he reappeared posing with crutches, but without an orthopedic boot, replaced by compression tights on his right leg, alongside a cancer child in a photo posted on the latter’s Instagram account.
In early April, the police had established that the golfer was driving at a “dangerous speed”, nearly double the authorized limit, during his accident.
He had been operated on for a long time, in particular for multiple open fractures in his right leg which required him to insert a metal rod into the tibia and screws to consolidate the bones of the foot and ankle.
Last week, U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker said he hoped to see Tiger Woods recovered enough to serve as the captain’s assistant during the U.S.-Europe showdown at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in September.
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