There is a phrase from Tiger Woods that sums up his record as a golf legend. It sounds like that catchphrase that there is no victory without pain.
“My children have seen me more being injured than healthy,” he regretted this Tuesday at his first press conference since his car accident last February 23 when circulating around the periphery of Los Angeles.
Woods, 45, struggling to return to competition, cast doubt on his professional return and assumed that if he succeeds, he may never again aspire to another Everest in his effort to achieve the pinnacle of his sport.
As for playing in the big tournaments, I don’t know if this could be or when ”
At all times he maintained a very emotional composure when evoking the tortuous path that he has traveled during 2021. “I would like to turn the page,” he confessed resignedly. “It is a year full of very hard moments and memories,” he stressed.
Something that the doctors told him during the three weeks of hospitalization was branded in his memory. “The amputation of the right leg was on the table,” he acknowledged. He suffered multiple fractures. He used the term “shattered” to describe the state of the limb after it was removed from the vehicle by firefighters.
Thanks to that chameleon capacity, which led him in 2019 to rise from the ashes after several operations and win one of the great titles, the number 15 in his legendary career, Woods claimed to be a lucky guy. “I’m alive and I have my leg,” he sighed.
Tiger Woods, training
Although he had to wear a special boot, that seems nothing compared to the wheelchair with which he left the hospital or the crutches that have accompanied him until not long ago. That happiness of regaining mobility without the help of anything will remain as another of his personal milestones.
A little over nine months ago, the tiger of the greens With a total of 82 trophies, he was recovering from another back operation when, on his way to filming a commercial, he jumped a median around a curve and tumbled down a hill. How and why it happened remains a secret. The Californian sheriff refuses to detail the reasons for the accident, appealing to “private concerns”, although it is ruled out that he drove under the influence of alcohol or taking drugs.
The golfer also declined to offer additional details. “It’s all in the police report,” he answered this question. Everything indicates that the accident occurred with an acceleration of 130 kilometers per hour, a speed much higher than that allowed on that journey.
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The illusions about his return were triggered when a video was posted on the networks in which he was seen training. Woods lowered expectations on Tuesday, although it was less forceful than in an interview he gave to Golf Digest in which he stated that he would never play at the highest level again.
In the appearance before the press, he remarked that he has been able to do a complete 18-hole course, but with a result far removed from what his records were.
The amputation of the right leg was on the table, I would like to turn the page “
“As for playing in big tournaments, I don’t know if and when this could be,” he insisted. Despite the fact that he had previously undergone ten operations (five on the left knee and five on the back), “this now is much more difficult, it is another level, it is difficult to explain what this right leg has been, immobilized for three months ”He added.
In that situation, he discovered the importance of what until then were little things. “I longed to go out and achieve it was a gold mine, especially for someone who has lived all his life abroad,” he said.
“Whether or not I will be in the competition at any level is something I do not know,” he reiterated. “I do not foresee that this leg will be what it was, nor will my back be what it was. The clocks are ticking and I will not be any younger, all this combined means a full calendar and I have no desire to do so. “
Tiger is content to play.
