{"id":187588,"date":"2021-02-24T04:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tiger-woods-car-accident-has-us-rooting-for-another-comeback-story\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T04:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T01:27:52","slug":"tiger-woods-car-accident-has-us-rooting-for-another-comeback-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiger-woods-car-accident-has-us-rooting-for-another-comeback-story\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tiger Woods\u2019 car accident has us rooting for another comeback story"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tiger Woods\u2019 car accident has us rooting for another comeback story<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The first reaction is relief, because it must be. Tiger Woods\u2019 injuries are, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, \u201csevere but not life threatening.\u201d At a time when there has been too much death, in sports and everywhere else, going back 13 months to a helicopter that crashed 48 miles away from where Woods rolled his SUV Tuesday morning, including a half-million American deaths to a pandemic, that is something for which to be grateful.<\/p>\n

The details? We\u2019ll learn those soon enough. The impact on Woods\u2019 life?<\/a> His two kids still have a father. He still has a beautiful future. These are things to celebrate, even if golf is no longer going to be a practical part of that. It is also OK to mourn that part, and maybe hope for something more.<\/p>\n

Maybe a part of all of us realized already that Woods might never replicate the comet that blitzed across the sky in his prime almost 20 years ago. But we could still dream. And we could still gain glimpses.<\/p>\n

There was the 2019 Masters, his 15th and most unexpected major, when the world\u2019s top golfers wilted in his presence \u2014 just as they did back in the day. After securing a fifth green jacket, he embraced his kids, Sam and Charlie, a circle-of-life moment that hearkened to so many 72nd-hole embraces he\u2019d shared with his own late father, Earl.<\/p>\n

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A vehicle rest on its side after a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods along a road in the Rancho Palos Verdes section of Los Angeles. He was removed through the windshield.<\/figcaption>
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He has already made one remarkable recovery, a decade-long odyssey that included a few self-inflicted craters involving marital infidelity and drug use, as well as ruinous back and knee problems. But he was a much younger man then. He is 45 now, an age when the calendar begins to play tricks with everyone\u2019s body, even healthy bodies that once housed elite athletes.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods at the PNC Championship on Dec. 20, 2020.<\/figcaption>
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There was a day in April 2000; a few of us had followed Jack Nicklaus from the old media<\/a> room at Augusta National into the brilliant sun of a perfect Georgia day. Two years earlier, Nicklaus had taken one more remarkable, glorious dance around Augusta\u2019s sprawling lawns, firing a final-round 68 at age 58, good enough for sixth place.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019d missed \u201999 because of hip surgery, and that\u2019s why we followed him to a spot under the Eisenhower Tree along the 17th hole. A champion\u2019s heart and his will always outlasts the rest of his body. Nicklaus was no exception. A slight limp offered proof.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you need in this game<\/a>, more than anything, are your legs,\u201d Nicklaus said. \u201cThat\u2019s why, to me, the greatest comeback in the history of sports was [Ben] Hogan. There were times you\u2019d look at him walking and you wondered how he made it out of bed every morning, let alone a golf course. It\u2019s the most incredible thing I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogan was already on his way to becoming one of golf\u2019s immortals on the night of Feb. 2, 1949, when he had a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus on a road outside Van Horn, Texas. He suffered a broken ankle, broken collarbone, double-broken pelvis, smashed his ribs. It was doubtful he\u2019d ever walk again. Somehow, after the accident, he won 11 tournaments, including six majors, often playing as few as six or seven events a year.<\/p>\n

It is impossible to not conjure Hogan now, and to link his story with Woods\u2019. Woods himself always said he took inspiration from Hogan\u2019s story during his own protracted journey back from the abyss, one that reached a climax at Butler Cabin on April 14, 2019.<\/p>\n

A few days earlier, Woods had accepted the Ben Hogan Award in recognition of his remarkable comeback, and said: \u201cIt meant a lot to me to receive this award after its namesake, what Mr. Hogan went through, what he did was truly remarkable and to have my name on a list of recipients like this is truly special.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Less than two years later he is back in a hospital bed, his body once again broken. Yes: we must root first that he enjoys many more decades with his kids, and that he can handle the excruciating pain he is no doubt suffering through without relapse. Those are most important. And maybe we have seen the last of him at Augusta, at Pebble Beach, at St. Andrews, at every prominent golfing place he used to command absolutely.<\/p>\n

If so, we must take the trade-off.<\/p>\n

But we can still hope for more than that. You\u2019d like to think if Tiger Woods\u2019 career has taught us one thing, it\u2019s OK to always want more.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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