![]() ![]() “I’ve lived my whole life outside, whether I’m playing golf, fishing or hunting,” Woods said. Once Woods was allowed to get out of bed, he spent another two months in a wheelchair, a difficult proposition for the 45-year-old who has spent the most part of his life walking, and bossing, golf courses across the globe. ![]() So OK, I can’t do that yet.” Hit the pause button there. Then, can I hit putts? My first few putts, I hit them in the hole but I couldn’t get them out of the hole. Now, OK, you’re on your own, so let’s build up the muscle. Let’s get to where I can throw that boot in the water. “First, let’s get the hell out of the wheelchair,” Woods outlined the chronology. It entailed an unprecedented process of making little, gritty improvements, just to be able to stand again. Legendary comebacks have defined the career of a man who has been through five knee and five back surgeries and returned to win the trophies as if he’d gone nowhere. One of his earliest memories of being on the hospital bed post the accident was seeking a golf club to fiddle around with. Woods did that for three weeks at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, followed by another three months on the bed of his home. ![]() His mind-and body-isn’t ready for competitive golf yet, but is at a place where he can reflect on the dark (and a few positive) moments of the painfully slow recovery phase.Īsked about the toughest part of his post-crash life, he said, “I think just laying there, laying still.” Nine months on from the road accident that severely damaged the tibia and fibula bones on his right leg, Woods is back on his feet. Lying on the hospital bed after the February 23 crash, Woods said his biggest fear was that he would lose a leg, an option that was very much on the table when he had been wheeled into the operating theatre. “I’m like, OK, I didn’t lose it,” he said, speaking to journalists on his first public appearance as the host of the Hero World Challenge on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Woods felt his legs, felt their weight, wriggled his toes. Just a few hours ago, he had been in a dramatic and terrifying high-speed crash in Los Angeles, his SUV running over a median on an uphill sweep and rolling down a steep hill. ![]()
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