Tiger Car Accident. ***All Content Subject to Moderation***

[Draw Driver]

46 minutes ago, KRAMER1997 said:

Screenshot this post Tiger Woods will be back in competition sometime between this December and March 2022 and will win a tournament next year.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

 

Tigggggggerrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

 

*uppercut sound effect 

Edited February 28, 2021 by Draw Driver

[80sFredriksson]

3 hours ago, gsrjc said:

He is a cardiac surgeon. I’d trust the orthopedic folks more. 

Ohh dont come here with smart facts like that and destroy our dreams 😭

[80sFredriksson]

3 hours ago, KRAMER1997 said:

Screenshot this post Tiger Woods will be back in competition sometime between this December and March 2022 and will win a tournament next year.

Will you eat a hat if you are wrong? 🧐

[TheMoneyShot]

10 hours ago, KRAMER1997 said:

Screenshot this post Tiger Woods will be back in competition sometime between this December and March 2022 and will win a tournament next year.

It definitely would not surprise me.  TW loves coming back to prove everyone wrong.  Never bet against that guy..

[chipa]

I've been a Tiger fan since even before I started playing golf for the first time in 95 and did everything I could to emulate his swing as it looked so athletic. Sure there were other players like Daly that could hit it with him but Tiger's aggressive athletic move was mesmerizing. I realize now that it was a young mans swing but hey I was young back then.

 

Tiger disappointed me back in 2009 and I lost interest in him breaking Jack's record but I still follow him and like to see him win and wish him all the best.

[Naptime]

No doubt TW could get a sponsor's exemption until he is 60 years old.  So if he wants to "come back" he can if that just means playing on Thursday and Friday.  I wonder what Joey will do.  TW presumably pays him well but sitting around gets boring.

[KRAMER1997]

7 hours ago, 80sFredriksson said:

Will you eat a hat if you are wrong? 🧐

I will never criticize Patrick Reed if I'm wrong.

[mshills]

18 hours ago, PuttCurseRepeat said:

 

I understand the effects trauma may have on short term memory, but not so much how one can appear "lucid" in the immediate aftermath of such a trauma. Knowing who and where you are is one thing - being completely lucid is another.

 

It is totally possible — first-hand experience here. In an earlier post I mentioned a severe accident I was in 2 years ago. 45 MPH four-lane road, oncoming driver crossed double yellow and hit me head-on. Data recorder in my car indicated I’d slowed to just under 30 MPH at impact, offending vehicle estimated 60 MPH 😱 at impact.
 

I was told afterwards by several first responders that I never lost consciousness and was barking orders while being transported in the ambulance — things like how to contact my wife and other family members including phone numbers, my home address, what schools my kids were in, which hospital I wanted to be taken to, etc. 

 

After all this I remember absolutely nothing until almost two days later. I am grateful that my brain has buried the memory and I pray every day that it stays wherever it is.
 

Tiger’s accident seems to have been similar in its severity and I’m not surprised he has no memory. I hope it stays that way for him too!

[Londoner]

I have never been the fan of Tiger as a person that some of you guys have but the guy has massive guts and heart. Always comes back fighting. Amazing that he won again after his other surgeries. I certainly wouldn't rule out more.

Remarkable. Good luck Tiger.

[Gsea]

Makes the most sense, pain killers day/night before overslept drowsy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2021/02/28/tiger-woods-update-could-he-asleep-wheel-during-crash/6856549002/

[Ferguson]

For the sake of sanity, I went back and read through each and every post (not really) and counted the posts that were based in conjecture, theory, misguided medical input, misapplied of physics terms, general guesswork and frivolous legal input.  As a percentage of total posts, they equaled 92%.  

 

 

These are the facts and they are undisputed: 

Tiger got into a serious car accident and was hurt badly.  He was not charged with a crime.  No other person was involved or hurt.  He is now recovering. 

 

Let's wait and see what happens with rehab.  

 

 

 

Edited February 28, 2021 by Ferguson
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[Rangeballz]

There may be a silver lining here. This injury may require him to swing within himself, obviously giving up distance off the tee but playing from the fairway. He can still be a premier iron player. Not being able to swing for the fences (if indeed it comes to that) could be a blessing in disguise.

[straightshot7]

18 minutes ago, Rangeballz said:

There may be a silver lining here. This injury may require him to swing within himself, obviously giving up distance off the tee but playing from the fairway. He can still be a premier iron player. Not being able to swing for the fences (if indeed it comes to that) could be a blessing in disguise.

no offense but that’s what he’s been doing for the past 2 years. The spinal fusion clearly took away some of his flexibility and he even said that. The recent swing already looked like a 70% version of the old one. He’s been hitting slap cuts with the driver. Totally within himself. 

[KRAMER1997]

April 2022! (And yes Patrick Reed is my pick to win the Masters this year)

 

[Mustard_Tiger]

4 hours ago, chipa said:

Tiger disappointed me back in 2009 and I lost interest in him breaking Jack's record but I still follow him and like to see him win and wish him all the best.

 

 

After years of being fan I wrote Tiger off in 2009 because I found him to be morally repugnant. However, he's won me back over the last few years. By all observations and accounts he seems to be a different person. Being publicly humbled can do that. Also, and probably more importantly, parenthood can fundamentally change a person.

 

Now cue the "none of knows what celebrities are really like" wrx'ers.

[m d g]

13 hours ago, 80sFredriksson said:

Will you eat a hat if you are wrong?

With pleasure...but only hats that are made of thick-sliced bacon.

[Greg_B]

5 hours ago, Gsea said:

Makes the most sense, pain killers day/night before overslept drowsy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2021/02/28/tiger-woods-update-could-he-asleep-wheel-during-crash/6856549002/

 

Interesting tidbits from that story:

 

The experts found it puzzling that Villanueva had determined it to be an accident already without having examined the vehicle’s “black box” computer, which could reveal his steering, braking or acceleration actions prior to impact.  Villanueva said Wednesday that information  had not been pulled yet.

Regarding an examination of Woods’ blood to see if he was medicated, Villanueva said Wednesday the hospital might have that information.

“We’ll assume that in the course of the treatment they draw blood and they have to do that obviously because he has to go into surgery and all that,” he said. “But that’s going to require a search warrant from our part to go into those details.”

USA TODAY Sports contacted the sheriff’s department Saturday to ask if Woods’ black box or blood was examined. The sheriff's department responded with a statement:

“The traffic collision investigation is ongoing, and traffic investigators have not made any conclusions as to the cause of the collision."

Woods announced in January that he recently had undergone the latest of several surgical procedures on his back. In 2017, police found him asleep at the wheel in Florida. A toxicology report stated he had Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien and THC in his system then, when he was arrested on suspicions of drunk driving. Ambien is used to treat sleep problems and has been used by Woods previously.

“There’s no real accident unless it’s a true medical emergency,” Cherney said. “There’s always some level of negligence, whether it’s simple negligence like looking down at your phone or changing the radio station that starts the whole collision sequence. … So when the sheriff is saying this is just an accident, I don’t know how in the world you can state that so early in the game without completing an in-depth thorough investigation and reconstruction analysis.”

[Naptime]

I get the impression the sheriff doesn't want to spend the next 3 years talking about it and filling out even more paperwork and getting subpoenaed by lawyers etc.  Would be a ton of hassle for little result.  As to any higher level questions of guilt, justice, etc. TW will endure more pain from his injuries and followup procedures than any traffic citation would ever produce.  If his insurance rates go up, the wreck likely has a bigger effect than any likely citation.  If he was distracted while driving, the wreck is a bigger "don't do that again" warning than any citation; specially if his family is in the vehicle with him.  Would you or I get cited for something?  I think more likely than not, but giving him a ticket seems like it would just keep the lawyers busy for a while.

[HackDaddy360]

I admittedly jumped to conclusions when news of the accident came out.  Given Tiger’s behavioral track record and the fact it was a single vehicle accident that involved high speeds it made me think that either 1) Tiger is a really bad driver 2) he was impaired in some way or 3) some combination of those two things.   
 

Given how fast this was declared an “accident”, how quickly it was cleaned up, the lack of any real (known) investigation and no toxicology report makes this seem real suspect to me.
 

All of that said, Tiger doesn’t deserve to go out like this as far as I’m concerned - particularly after turning his life around (or so it seems) in a major way.  I hope he recovers as fully as possible and gets a chance to play again.  

[ebrasmus21]

I’m finding it bizarre that so many people feel there needs to be some sort of a formal investigation 

[ALIF]

13 hours ago, TheMoneyShot said:

It definitely would not surprise me.  TW loves coming back to prove everyone wrong.  Never bet against that guy..

It is possible but highly unlikely given that he had a talus fracture, Pilon fracture with segmental tibia shaft fracture and subsequent compartment syndrome. He is lucky that he has his leg in all seriousness. Unless you fix these for a living you cannot even begin to understand how serious these injuries are.

[deadsolid...shank]

13 hours ago, TheMoneyShot said:

It definitely would not surprise me.  TW loves coming back to prove everyone wrong.  Never bet against that guy..

I would agree to never bet against hIm mentally, but I might now physically. I’m just not sure his body is up to a comeback of this magnitude. It’s been through an awful lot through the years. 

[brew4eagle]

45 minutes ago, ebrasmus21 said:

I’m finding it bizarre that so many people feel there needs to be some sort of a formal investigation

The 'it was an accident' just seems like a hasty conclusion

[bscinstnct]

3 hours ago, Naptime said:

I get the impression the sheriff doesn't want to spend the next 3 years talking about it and filling out even more paperwork and getting subpoenaed by lawyers etc.  Would be a ton of hassle for little result.  As to any higher level questions of guilt, justice, etc. TW will endure more pain from his injuries and followup procedures than any traffic citation would ever produce.  If his insurance rates go up, the wreck likely has a bigger effect than any likely citation.  If he was distracted while driving, the wreck is a bigger "don't do that again" warning than any citation; specially if his family is in the vehicle with him.  Would you or I get cited for something?  I think more likely than not, but giving him a ticket seems like it would just keep the lawyers busy for a while.

 

If his insurance rates go up?

 

TW gonna need to stage a takeover of Geico if he want to ever drive a car again.

 

Who gonna insure TW?

 

TW call insurance guy like, “Hi, this is Tiger Woods....hello?   hello?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fowlerscousin]

9 hours ago, ebrasmus21 said:

I’m finding it bizarre that so many people feel there needs to be some sort of a formal investigation 

If he was under the influence he would be criminally negligent.  The dude almost killed other people by going into head on traffic.

[jt2gt]

So...if instead he smashed head into someone else (he was on the wrong side of the road for a stretch, so very plausible) and the sheriff said so quickly -- nothing is to blame, this was just an accident, no investigation needed -- that would be fine with everyone.  I'm beginning to think it looks more like a fall asleep at the wheel situation and Tiger really should not be driving himself anywhere.  

Edited March 1, 2021 by jt2gt

[golfandfishing]

13 hours ago, ebrasmus21 said:

I’m finding it bizarre that so many people feel there needs to be some sort of a formal investigation 

Not really bizarre at all - I think most of us put ourselves in that situation and the “courtesy” extended by the police would be a lot less accommodating. His celebrity status has bailed him out before and did so again. Given that no public property was damaged, no one aside from Tiger hurt and no other vehicles involved it does not really warrant any kind of investigation- but if they find someone in that car they don’t recognize I cannot imagine impairment being dismissed so quickly and without any tests. 

[mizuno player]

On 2/28/2021 at 9:49 AM, Naptime said:

No doubt TW could get a sponsor's exemption until he is 60 years old.  So if he wants to "come back" he can if that just means playing on Thursday and Friday.  I wonder what Joey will do.  TW presumably pays him well but sitting around gets boring

Tiger is a lifetime member or something. He can whenever he wants. Does not and will not ever need a sponsor invite/exemption. I think that happens with 20 wins? 

 

Interesting what happens with Joe of he's out a year or two. I imagine he will be paid something. Tiger will still have income without playing and lots of it. 

[SheriffBooth]

In the absence of any new factual information, we're going to start dialing back the conjecture and conspiracy theory stuff that's starting to crop up in this thread.  It's just taking you guys and gals down a path of arguing amongst yourselves.  We'll still be reviewing and approving posts, just understand that if you don't see yours approved it's because we're trying to throttle things down a bit.

[bscinstnct]