Tiger Woods Injured in Car Crash

MinnieBeach FanaticMemphis4,328 postsJoined Dec 30, '06View profile MessageBeach Fanatic

Nov 27, '09 · 2:18 PM25,178

(CNN) -- Golfer Tiger Woods was taken to a Florida hospital after suffering serious injuries in a car wreck early Friday, officials said.

The one-car accident occurred about 2:25 a.m. near his home in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, according to an incident report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

Woods, 33, had just pulled out of his driveway and begun to drive down the street when his Cadillac SUV struck a fire hydrant, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The front of his vehicle then struck a tree.
Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital, though a woman who answered the phone Friday afternoon said he was not there.
http://www.wesh.com/news/21740162/detail.html
The crash is under investigation and charges are pending, though it was not clear who could face charges. The accident did not appear to have been alcohol-related, the statement said.

I wish him a full recovery.

Edited Nov 27, '09 · 2:24 PM

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TooFarTampaSoWal InsiderNative of Tampa now in Boston 'burbs. Left my hear5,422 postsJoined Jun 27, '05View profile MessageSoWal Insider

Dec 15, '09 · 9:33 PM#127

I just always found him to be a little nerdy and didn't think of him as a player. :idontno:

Possibly because we remember him so vividly as a nerdy 19-year-old. Between that, and the fact that SI declared him The Second Coming and the Sportsman of the Year in 1996, well, I guess that was too much to live up to. :lol:

Teresa

TeresaSoWal GuideSouth Walton, FL30,970 postsJoined Nov 15, '04View profile MessageSoWal Guide

Dec 15, '09 · 9:34 PM#128

OK, I'll admit it. I feel totally duped by Tiger. Not because his personal life is any of my business(it's so not) although I would argue that privacy is the cost of fame, I feel duped because I always thought this guy was a clean-cut, family guy. I so got him wrong.

I know what you mean exactly.

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LuciferSamBannedSowal4,749 postsJoined Apr 26, '08View profile MessageBanned

Dec 15, '09 · 9:38 PM#129

Buffalo FBI probing Tiger Woods' doctor Tony Galea for links to banned doping drugs HGH, Actovegin

There are a couple of things that aren't clear at this time. It may be a banned substance from the sports world, but I don't know if there is anything criminal about a licensed physician administering it and a patient accepting such treatment. So with that in mind let's look at the moral implications. A lot of substances such as steroids and growth hormone have very effective therapeutic value for people with serious injuries. Anabolic steroids were invented during WWII and were used to help heal the injuries of wounded vets. Well Tiger had a very serious knee injury. If I were in his position I might just say PGA rules be damned and go for it if there was nothing criminal involved. The health of my joints is more important than some dumb game.

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Alicia LeonardSoWal InsiderIn the little town with FUN in the middle5,058 postsJoined Oct 25, '07View profile MessageSoWal Insider

Dec 15, '09 · 9:38 PM#130

Possibly because we remember him so vividly as a nerdy 19-year-old. Between that, and the fact that SI declared him The Second Coming and the Sportsman of the Year in 1996, well, I guess that was too much to live up to. :lol:

Nail-on-head. Thank you:wub:

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LuciferSamBannedSowal4,749 postsJoined Apr 26, '08View profile MessageBanned

Dec 15, '09 · 9:41 PM#131

I just always found him to be a little nerdy and didn't think of him as a player. :idontno:

Bingo! And because of his growing stature a whole new world opens up for him.

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Alicia LeonardSoWal InsiderIn the little town with FUN in the middle5,058 postsJoined Oct 25, '07View profile MessageSoWal Insider

Dec 15, '09 · 9:50 PM#132

Bingo! And because of his growing stature a whole new world opens up for him.

So, his success was his downfall :scratch:

FB1FB1Beach Comber8 postsJoined Jun 22, '07View profile MessageBeach Comber

Dec 15, '09 · 9:50 PM#133

[quote:wave: later tiger, you're history. .[/quote]

Not likely....

Wait till next season 5 or 6 wins, 1 or 2 majors, life will be good for Tigger again...

aggieb

aggiebBeach Fanaticibx3,032 postsJoined Sep 18, '07View profile MessageBeach Fanatic

Dec 15, '09 · 9:54 PM#134

[quote:wave: later tiger, you're history. .

Not likely....

Wait till next season 5 or 6 wins, 1 or 2 majors, life will be good for Tigger again...[/quote]

i'm not sure. i really don't see that but i could be wrong.
and if this is true about performance enhancing or what is it😀:blush:, jack nicklaus needs to put his foot down.

Edited Dec 15, '09 · 9:57 PM

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LuciferSamBannedSowal4,749 postsJoined Apr 26, '08View profile MessageBanned

Dec 15, '09 · 10:03 PM#135

So, his success was his downfall :scratch:

Maybe, but I'm sure he's got some fond memories.

Minnie

MinnieBeach FanaticMemphis4,328 postsJoined Dec 30, '06View profile MessageBeach FanaticAuthor

Dec 16, '09 · 12:51 AM#136

Corporations and $$.

The Nat'l Enquirer would have broken the story years ago if it wasn't quashed by the parent company who wanted Tiger on a magazine cover to boost circulation.

Canoehead said it was well known in the PGA. (She knows all the dirt.)

Interesting, one of my friend's husband is big into the sports scene and the PGA and he said he had heard things prior to this too.

I mean he was booking connecting rooms to his when he was on tour, others had to have known.

I too bought his act.

Bob

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Dec 16, '09 · 10:33 PM#137

Tiger Woods controversy: Being inked to performance-enhancing drugs would be Tiger Woods' worst-case scenario -- OrlandoSentinel.com
Mike Bianchi SPORTS COMMENTARY

December 15, 2009

Now we should care.

More than ever before

Forget about the immorality of Tiger Woods' multiple mistresses.

What's much more damaging is the potential illegality of his multiple majors.

Tiger Woods cheating on his wife is ultimately between him and her.

But Tiger Woods potentially cheating on the game of golf is definitively between him and all of us sports fans who have cheered him, revered him and marveled at how he is so much better than everybody else on the PGA Tour.

Maybe now we know the reason why.

Maybe Tiger Woods is simply the Barry Bonds of golf ? and Jack Nicklaus is Hank Aaron.

The latest saga in Tiger's meteoric fall from grace came Tuesday when the story broke about one of Tiger's doctors being arrested and suspected of providing performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to elite athletes. According to the New York Times, the FBI is investigating Canadian physician Dr. Anthony Galea, who was found with human growth hormone in his bag at the U.S.-Canada border in late October.

I know, I know, nothing has been proven and we're supposed to give Tiger the benefit of the doubt. We're supposed to assume the best in our professional athletes, right?

Sorry, but that philosophy went out the window six mistresses and seven steroids scandals ago.

The PGA Tour, for once in its life, should be proactive on an issue involving performance-enhancing drugs. Commissioner Tim Finchem should immediately announce a full-scale investigation into Tiger's relationship with this controversial doctor. And if it's found that Tiger has been using illegal PEDs, all of golf's governing bodies should strip him of his major titles. Nicklaus, like Aaron, should not have his monumental milestone (18 major victories) surpassed by a cheater.

Remember the before-and-after pictures of lanky Bonds as a young baseball player and then the bulked-up, hulked-up Bonds after he began using that BALCO-manufactured "flaxseed oil"? Well, look at pictures of Tiger as the skinny young golfer and compare them to the thicker, bigger, sculpted, chiseled Tiger of today.

Doesn't it make you wonder?