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Tiger Woods was optimistic about playing some limited professional golf in the future while also being realistic about the struggles ahead, given the perspective he gleaned from the serious auto accident he endured in February.
“I’m lucky to be alive and also have a limb,” Woods said Tuesday in the Bahamas, where he conducted his first news conference since the Feb. 23 crash in Southern California.
Woods was at Albany Golf Club, site of this week’s Hero World Challenge, an event he hosts for his foundation.
He did not answer any specific questions about the accident, which happened as he traversed a winding road on his way to Rolling Hills Country Club early in the morning for an endorsement obligation. He referenced the 22-page police report that was issued in early April.
Woods was in the hospital for three weeks after the accident and in a hospital-like bed for three months after that. He suffered significant injuries to his right leg and foot and said it was “50-50” as to whether part of his leg might be amputated.
“This one’s been much more difficult,” Woods said, referencing the various injury comebacks in his career. “The knee stuff was one thing. That’s one level. Then the back. With this right leg. … it’s hard to explain how difficult it is. Being immobile for three months. Just to lay there. I was just looking forward to getting outside. That was a goal of mine. Especially for a person who lived his entire life outside, that was a goal.
“I transitioned from a wheelchair to crutches and now nothing. It’s been a lot of hard work.”
But he also admitted that “there’s a long way to go.”
“As far as playing at the tour level, I don’t know when that’s going to happen,” he said. “Now, I’ll play a round here or there, a little hit and giggle, I can do something like that. The USGA suggested Play It Forward [the tees]. I really like that idea now. I don’t like the tees on the back. I like Play It Forward. Come on, let’s move it up, let’s move it up.
“To see…
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