Tiger Woods provides first health update, reveals ‘faithful rehab partner’

Tiger Woods was on crutches but smiling as he revealed how his rehabilitation from leg injuries suffered in a horror car crash is progressing.

Tiger Woods wore a big cast — and big smile — in an Instagram photo posted Saturday to update fans on his recovery following a high speed car crash outside Los Angeles.

“My course is coming along faster than I am,” Woods wrote alongside a picture showing him grinning in a pair of crutches beside his dog, his leg wrapped in a cast and black brace.

“But it’s nice to have a faithful rehab partner, man’s best friend.”

It was revealed last week the backyard golf course at Woods’ $50 million Florida mansion was being redone.

The photo (below) was the first Woods has posted of himself since a serious car wreck on February 23 that left him so injured that some experts said his golf career could be over.

Tiger Woods with his 'faithful rehab partner'.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office later determined Woods was going as fast as 140km/h, close to double the limit, in the crash, which could’ve killed him had it not been for the steely interior of the 2021 Genesis GV80 he was driving.

The PGA legend was barrelling down Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes when he smashed into a raised median, hit a kerb and then a tree, sending the SUV airborne before landing in a patch of shrubbery.

The vehicle driven by golfer Tiger Woods in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

Woods was knocked unconscious in the accident and suffered a shattered ankle, two broken bones and will need serious rehabilitation before he can think about getting back on the links, experts previously said.

A police report later showed that Woods was “combative” with officers after the crash and he believed he was in his home state of Florida, not California, when they initially responded to the scene.

— New York Post

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