Posted on 02/24/2021 3:24:13 PM PST by libstripper
The serious lower leg injuries Tiger Woods sustained in a car crash on Tuesday typically lead to a long and perilous recovery, calling into question his ability to play professional golf again, according to medical experts who have treated similar injuries.
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You’re right.
I actually enjoy the rivalry, Have several “favorites,” am happy when any one of them wins. Or almost wins. Makes the game exciting to watch. McIlroy was terrific from the first day he stepped on a PGA course and had a very long run too. Mr. Dechambeau started by being amazing, and now misses cuts. Speith, Rahm, Schauffele are on my faves list and I like Ryan Palmer too for reasons none of my friends umderstand: His name is perfect, I plan to use it in a novel I’m writing.
Dustin Johnson is great but it bothers me that he has a beard. Upsets my image of golfers as clean-cut young men. But I’m a girl, so I get to have unsportsmanlike opinions. Reed is fat, also violates my image though his short game is amazing.
I do wish Tiger all the best. I would never have become a golf fan without him.
Reed is a curiosity. He alienates his fellow professionals repeatedly, even as he did his college teammates. He has estranged himself completely from his parents. He's highly skilled at golf, if not with rules or people.
You might enjoy this. Tiger and I both learned to play at Heartwell Par-3 Golf Course in NE Long Beach, although I predated him by 25 years. And Warren Stephenson, my Lakewood High School golf coach, 25 years later was Tiger's principal at Anaheim's Western High.
Yet, somehow, Tiger became TIGER and I remained me.
Cool about you and Tiger. Glad you are you.
Hogan and Smith were 36, Tiger is 45 going on 50 with all his surgeries. 10 years is huge for an athlete. My guess, he’ll never play competitive golf again and will not win another PGA tournament.
I hope he heals and gets healthy and makes a triumphant return to a Masters Tourney or another major, he’ll deserve the fanfare.
He’s 5 years away from the Senior Tour and the tournament purses will skyrocket to attract him to play, just as happened on the big boy tour. New records will be set and more money will be earned, he will still play the Masters every year he’s healthy enough. He will still also have the deepest throngs following him around, even in Augusta as an old man.
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