pictures really stop you in your tracks
absolutely horrific images as the scene
was clearly left with the first
responders that brought him to the local
hospital there
yeah and apologies i missed that part of
the sheriff's department uh press
release it does say that he was the
driver and sole occupant
of the vehicle uh you can see that it it
looks like what happened was they took
out the front windshield of the car
to extricate him that way using the jaws
of life and
and again when you when you have a crash
like this the the roof is compacted in
the front of the car was shoved back so
you can imagine that there would likely
be have been
some entrapment of his lower extremities
uh in that car which
for a golfer is is it's going to
potentially be very very
bad news for anybody it would be of
course but
particularly for somebody who you know
makes their living off the lower body
the way that a
a golfer does for so many that are
weighing in and hearing this news just
now that tiger woods was
injured in a car crash there the los
angeles sheriff just reporting john
we're starting to see some reaction pour
in including lawmakers
who are just now seeing the news lee
zeldin from new york prayers for tiger
woods
who's been injured in a single vehicle
rollover in california
prayers are being offered by many as you
can imagine this is taking over the
social media atmosphere right now
with so many weighing in and wishing him
the absolute best you know here is a guy
who fought back
from you know this the situation from a
decade ago
that nearly torpedoed his career uh then
he experienced his terrible back
problems as matt finn
was saying and now he's you know built
himself back up into a contender was
winning tournaments again was
challenging
uh in majors uh and and now this
uh and you know the you
you have to feel for him because he went
through so much in terms of
the back problems the surgeries the
rehabilitation
there you see some recent pictures of
tiger the much more bulked up tiger
than we had seen in the past with a
brand new swing and
and now john future uncertain as he is
in the hospital
uh apparently undergoing surgery tigers
agent mark steinberg
has just put out a statement saying that
tiger has suffered
quote multiple leg injuries and is
currently
in surgery sportscaster jim gray joining
us on the breaking news jim
we just learned this now from steinberg
that he is
he's injured in multiple places in his
leg and he's currently in surgery your
thoughts at this time
well it's tragic to hear this yes
it's it's tragic to hear this and
it's just an awful circumstance and
i'm just listening to the details that
you all are giving and catching up on
this but uh
i'm speechless really yeah um it's it's
quite sad to uh
think of everything that tiger has gone
through and the joy that he has brought
to all of us
uh in the golf world uh and to sports
and to uh to hear this is just uh
it's shocking you know jim i hear it in
your voice and i was
i covered very closely
his his demise as you remember so many
years ago
when everything happened with his wife
and the extramarital affairs
how greatly that affected his family and
at that time so many
who almost wished him ill will based on
what we learned and then there was this
major route for him to come back and he
did
and i mean the crowds gathered around
all the golf courses that he ever sets
foot on the
the golfers they love him i mean he
brought back the sport of golf
and he's he's made a major comeback that
he's brought
so many fans along with him so as you
can imagine
there's an outpouring of support as we
learn these details
well sandra you know he he had last
played with his son
charlie uh in the father and son
tournament uh or or the relatives i
don't know exactly what they
call the tournament but there was so
much joy to see him out there with
charlie
and he was you know a proud papa and you
could see
just all the exuberance that he had and
he was trying to shield his young son as
well
so that this media onslaught would not
uh somehow
overtake him the way it overtook tiger
as a youngster
and and what has followed and so in his
last public appearance
on a golf course we saw this tremendous
joy and he had that joy when he won the
2019 masters
and we saw people finally being able to
share in that joy with him as opposed to
being
you know at a distance and to have
completed that comeback
to have this now he was at riviera just
a couple of days ago presenting the
trophy
to houma who would won the tournament a
tiger unable to play because of the
surgery
but he looked in good spirits and came
on the air with jim nance
on the cbs telecast so i guess we're
just gonna have to wait and see about
these surgeries
and uh and jim it's john roberts um
in terms of the surgery that he just
recently had did it look like he was
going to be able to get back into a full
season to play this year
well he indicated in that interview with
jim nance that he wasn't sure
that he was going to have to take it day
by day and see what happened
in fact he cast some doubt on that john
that he would be able to play in augusta
and of course he can win at augusta
anytime regardless of his form because
he's so familiar with the course
having won there so much and being a
legend there but uh he
he had cast doubt as to whether or not
you know he was going to be able to play
in the beginning of april
not the first car crash he's been and of
course there was the car crash in his
suv in 2009
at his home in florida he's 45 years old
he was in the area for his annual
genesis invitational golf tournament gym
at the riviera country club in the
pacific palisades
he had met with and taken photo with
photos with stars over the weekend
david spade dwyane wade and others
announced his recent back surgery
what we still don't know at this hour
what caused this accident jim we can
only lean on the details from the
sheriff's office
and of course what we just heard from
his agent we await to hear more on his
condition as we know he's in the
hospital now
tiger woods he was rescued with the jaws
of life
he sustained multiple leg injuries and
his
his agent just a few moments ago
confirming that he is in surgery gym
you know he's had numerous surgeries
knee surgeries
numerous back surgeries a neck he is he
has been
you know under uh the knife of from
surgery
all of these inflicted obviously by his
playing
and what the wear and tear has taken on
him none from
uh obviously any kind of an impact of a
of an auto crash so this is a whole
different type of thing
uh than what he has had to endure for
what has been his physical ailments that
have been
uh because of his play and because of
his uh participation in sports over all
of these years and when you swing a golf
club like he has
since he's been three or four years old
virtually every day of his life that he
was physically able
that wear and tear takes its toll but
nothing quite like this and and we just
don't know
you know exactly from mark steinberg
what this type of surgery is but uh
none of the things that he has uh
undergone surgery for before i'm sure
it was is nothing like this to repair
his knee uh or to uh
fix his back you know many many many
times
jim and not not to speculate on the
injuries but many many times when you're
in surgery for a leg injury it's because
of a break
uh i broke my lower left tibia
back in 2002 and it was a long recovery
uh it took at least a number of months
and again we don't know the extent of
his injuries other than he's in surgery
for multiple leg injuries so depending
on the extent of his injuries
the back may be the least of his
problems at least in the immediate
future