Tiger Woods, February 21, 2021. – Ryan Kang/AP/SIPA
“My number 1 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.
“My rehabilitation keeps me busy. I do my routine exercises every day and am focusing on my number 1 goal right now: walking on my own. I take one step at a time, ”said Woods in this very first and short interview. since the accident of February 23, which occurred in California, which caused him several open fractures to the right leg.
Even more painful than all his back pain
Injuries “which have absolutely nothing to do” in terms of pain compared to what he may have suffered during his career, he who notably underwent 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 it is more painful than anything I have known, ”he said.
” I’ve 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 play golf again.
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, the American captain of the Ryder CupSteve Stricker has said he hopes to see Tiger Woods recovered enough to serve as an assistant to the captain during the United States-Europe showdown at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in September.
