Tiger Woods has promised that he won’t let his horrific car crash end his career.
The 45-year-old who is lucky to survive said that if he manages to play again, he will for sure return. According to sources close to the golfer, Woods, who has been fighting back problems for several months now after surgery, has been telling his close friends that we won’t let the injury finish off his career.
“It can’t end like this.” he was quoted by the source.
The source added: “If there’s any way at all he can continue playing, he will.”
He made the comments after his girlfriend Erica Herman, agent Mark Steinberg and caddie Joe LaCava visited him at a medical centre in Los Angeles.
Woods was driving in Rancho Palos Verdes, near Los Angeles around 7 in the morning when his brand new SUV lost control and veered off the road before hitting a curb, then a tree.
According to doctors, Woods might never walk again and narrowly dodged getting his leg amputated after the crash.
Doctors said Woods suffered “comminuted” fractures in the upper and lower parts of the tibia and fibula – meaning the breaks had led to bone splintering. They fitted metal rods, screws and pins to his shattered right shinbone and calf bone following the crash.
Police also said woods won’t be charged because it was purely an accident.
The injury comes just when he was planning a major comeback this year following the back surgery.
The source added: “This is a massive setback, and he knows it, but he’s overcome obstacles in the past and thinks he can do it again.”
It’s not the first time Woods has found himself trying to make a major comeback though. In 2009, a car crash outside his Florida home opened up a can of worms about his private life and cheating escapades. It took him 10 years to make a comeback and clinched his first major win at the Masters since the US Open in 2008.
