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By Rory Carroll and Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – {Golfing} champion Tiger Woods was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a number of accidents suffered when his automotive veered off a street and rolled down a steep hillside, requiring rescue crews to extricate him from the wreckage, authorities mentioned.
Woods’ accidents weren’t believed to be life threatening, ESPN reported, citing police sources, regardless of video footage from the crash scene displaying his darkish grey Genesis sport utility car badly crumpled and mendacity on its aspect close to the underside of the slope, home windows smashed.
There was no rapid official phrase on the extent or nature of Woods’ accidents, however CNN reported he suffered compound fractures to each of his legs.
Woods, 45, a 15-time Grand Slam champion and one of the celebrated figures on the planet of sports activities, was the only occupant of the automotive when it crashed at about 7:12 a.m. close to the suburban communities of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division mentioned in a written assertion.
“Tiger Woods was in a single-car accident this morning in California the place he suffered a number of leg accidents. He’s at present in surgical procedure and we thanks in your privateness and help,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, mentioned in an announcement given to Golf Digest journalist Daniel Rapaport.
Sheriff’s deputy Joana Warren advised Reuters the car had ran off the roadway and rolled down the hillside earlier than coming to relaxation close to the underside.
The sheriff’s division initially mentioned a rescue device referred to as “the jaws of life” was used to pry Woods from the wreckage. However Los Angeles County Hearth Division spokesman Christopher Thomas later advised Reuters that emergency personnel really pulled Woods from the car by the entrance windshield after the glass body was reduce away and eliminated.
Woods’ success on the greens remodeled him right into a worldwide celebrity, ushering in an period of multimillion-dollar endorsements and profitable look cash and unfold the game to an viewers far past its conventional picture of male, white and middle-class.
He additionally served as a significant affect on the fashionable technology of golfers resembling Australian world No. 1 Jason Day, who has mentioned he learn a e book about Woods and determined to repeat the American’s excessive work ethic.
Woods, whose profession has been hampered lately by again accidents and underwent his fifth again surgical procedure in December, hosted the PGA tour’s annual Genesis Invitational on the Riviera Nation Membership over the weekend however didn’t compete.
He was seen on the Rolling Hills Nation Membership on Monday with actress Jada Pinkett Smith, former basketball star Dwayne Wade and comic David Spade.
‘PRAYING FOR TW’
Information that Woods, the best golfer of his technology, had been injured in a critical automotive wreck despatched shockwaves by the sports activities world.
“Praying for my brother @TigerWoods as all of us anxiously await extra information,” former baseball star Alex Rodriguez mentioned on Twitter. “Considering of him and his total household.”
“I’m sick to my abdomen,” fellow PGA Tour golfer Justin Thomas mentioned throughout a information convention through which he referred to as Woods one in all his closest pals. “I simply hope he’s alright.”
Former Woods girlfriend, Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, tweeted merely: “Praying for TW”
The PGA Tour issued an announcement from Commissioner Jay Monahan. “We’re awaiting additional info when he comes out of surgical procedure. On behalf of the PGA TOUR and our gamers, Tiger is in our prayers and could have our full help as he recovers.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who has performed golf with Woods on a number of events and awarded him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, issued an announcement urging Woods to get properly quickly, including: “You’re a true champion!”
California-born Eldrick “Tiger” Woods turned skilled in 1996 and received his first U.S. Tour title in solely his fifth begin. Since then, he has nearly redefined the sport.
Woods held the highest spot in skilled golf’s world rankings for a file whole of 683 weeks, profitable 14 main championship titles between 1997 and 2008.
After a sequence of accidents and private points derailed his profession at occasions, Woods claimed his fifteenth main title on the Masters in 2019, his fifth time incomes the coveted inexperienced jacket given to Masters champions.
His 15 main titles stands second solely to the file 18 received by Jack Nicklaus.