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know its not a golf forum............
hillbille
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but kinda suprised not a mention of Tiger by now. love him or hate him he is a great golfer, but it looks like this latest accident may keep him tied with ole sam snead. not only back trouble but now crushed legs, if he makes it back to regular tour I will have to admit he's a hell of a man. though I could see him make it back to the senior tour in a few years............
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I never had an issue with the guy. He let his game speak for itself.
I hope he makes a full recovery.
HAD a hot wife.
We all have our issues he has his but as noted he sure made a impact on the game. Prayers for his full recovery
Was a great golfer
He was a hell of a golfer but a despicable man IMO. The news is saying he may never walk right again.
I just got finished looking at where he wrecked and I really don't see how unless he was really speeding or the car did something weird. The car had all these fancy accident avoidance, sleepy driver alerts and other stuff. Could the car have got crazy and crashed itself?
why is this national news.?
Why is this nat news?? Why are you a jerk?? Some things just are.
Maybe Michael Jordan will rig up a disability car so he can drive in NASCAR
We are headed down a slippery slope.....there was a thread the other day about a golf ball launcher and now this...maybe the new owners will add a Golf Forum to the talk boards to handle all this traffic...
I could use a good place to sleep Wm81, golf would do it alright.
I once had a doctor who did himself in using his vehicle to do it. Wonder if Tiger was having depression issues?
He's no Ty Webb.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Which little dimple were you aiming at ??
What a classic!
I hate to see this happen to anyone, regardless of my feelings about the person.
I am not ashamed to admit that I have a strong streak of schadenfreude. There are number of people who I would dance a jig for if they suddenly keeled over dead. I view that as a balance for the people who I would truly mourn over.
Apparently Tiger doesn't obey the 90 degree rule.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
thats my thought also. seemingly insurmountable problems with lower back has wrecked his career, personal problems wrecking his life. methinks the demons in his head got the best of him and pushed the envelope of safe driving to the point of near suicide.
Like it or not, he was the best ever in the world in golf, and yes, I have my issues also so I am not judging him on life choices. "Lucky" to be alive in that wreck.
The one that's gone !
Update: Cops say there will be no charges filed, because it was "a pure accident." (And we let celebrities get away with anything short of murder, and maybe even that, just because they're celebrities.)
What possible charges could there be? There didn't seem to be excessive speed. No damage to property besides his own vehicle. Adding an inattentive driving charge seems like insult to injury and entirely pointless regardless.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
My point is that this was California and he is a celebrity. He could have been pulled from the wreck with his pants down, a joint in his lips, and a naked woman in the car, and there would have been "no evidence found" of any crime.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Several years ago my son tipped over his mini van on an icy downhill sloping road. The vehicle slid into the snowbank on the roadside and it flipped over on the drivers side. He was on his way to school that morning. There were no injuries and no other vehicles involved. A wrecker arrived at the scene about the same time a lady cop showed up. There was not a lot of serious damage to the van until the wrecker picked it up and dropped it from a very high setting. Flattening all 4 tires, ruining all 4 wheels and really messing up all the front end suspension.
The police woman watched it all go down as she wrote my son (a high school kid) a ticket for driving too fast for conditions.
I got a ticket once for driving too fast for conditions leading to my own rollover accident after I hit black ice at the top of the Lewiston, ID grade. There were a few witnesses to the accident the officer interviewed. All said I was traveling less than the speed limit. One side "probably 50" in the 60mph zone of that particular 4 lane and one estimated 45. I took it to court and never saw the inside of the courtroom before it got thrown out.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
They moved Tiger to Ceders Sinai to recover. I have seen reports he may not walk with full strength again and his family is worried he is going to get hooked on pain pills again too.
The guy was a great golf but his life has been a complete train wreck with most of it self inflicted.
I could go on with a continue to my post about my sons wrecked car and traffic ticket. It was a real bad winter that year. I had to drive my son to school for a couple weeks while his car was being fixed. One morning the roads were black ice and slicker than snot. I had made the trip to his school OK but on the way home as I was coming up on a traffic light, it turned yellow. I was going less than 20 mph and tried to brake. My car kept going and I slid through the intersection with no problems with others. The light actually didn't turn red until I was at least half way through.
Anyway, I had a cop follow me several blocks to the next lighted intersection when he hit his lights on me. I pulled over into a safe area off the road and unbuckled my seat belt to get into my back pocket for my wallet. My anticipation was just a bit of my downfall! The cop not only gave me a ticket for the light but also for not wearing my seat belt!!!!!
My son had not even had his day in traffic court and I ended up having to join him.
Never had any problems with our local police force for all of my years here but for some reason they just decided to hit up on me and mine that winter!
See? If only you were a celebrity...
Does this mean he won't be in the Masters???? Laughing...
Considering his history of back problems...I would bet that pain pills were involved...
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Well, I would never unbuckle my belt until they see that it is on and never would I be fumbling around while the police are not up to the vehicle yet. Just my opinion.
Regards to the OP , he has enough cash to do whatever, know it would be hard to get out of the spotlight for a time but I would take that yacht and tell the skipper to shove off after he gets out.
I am as far away from a golf fan as possible , but he was/is in the news too often not to notice . from what I have gathered he was one of the best to paly , I would think he has enough money to make several life times . sad he may not compete but personal appearances endorsement's and so on will still have a way better life than many
I wish him well and like stated his personal life has seemed to be a train wreck
I don't wish ill will on Tiger. He has had his share of problems, as have all of us. Better believe that when he went to the hospital blood was drawn for toxicology.
He has the money for top notch care. Maybe his career is over. Maybe he can play on the senior tour in a few years. I only wish him good luck.
Most of the once great golfers had careers as product sponsors, golf coarse designers, authors, and even actors when they were no longer in the game. I also note that many estates of long dead celebrities still make millions of dollars annually to this day.
Woods is reportedly the first pro golfer to have a net worth exceeding a billion dollars, the majority of which came from big-name sponsor contracts. Many of those sponsors dropped him like a hot 9-iron when his habitual filandering and infidelity came out. By then, he had already collected hundreds of millions from them - and some big sponsors remain yet. That's over and above his actual winnings, which have to total a few hundred million. He has made his agents and accountants very, very rich men.
I like him a lot more as a struggling golfer then when he was in his hey day. I actually cheer for him now and he has done a ton of stuff for the golfing world. But one thing I'll tell you is I would never get into a car that he was driving.
It was said that Alex Smith would never play football again either. I wouldn't count Woods out just yet.