Tiger Woods says he will 'never' play golf again full time - NBC News

Golf star Tiger Woods will "never" again play the sport full time after he was severely injured in a car accident this year, although he still hopes to “click off a tournament here or there,” he said in an interview published Monday in Golf Digest.

Comparing the sport to scaling the world’s tallest mountain, Woods said that after a previous back operation, he had to “climb Mt. Everest one more time,” adding: “I had to do it, and I did. I don’t think I’ll have the body to climb Mt. Everest, and that’s okay. I can still participate in the game of golf.”

Woods, 45, fractured the tibia and the fibula in his right leg in a crash Feb. 23 in suburban Los Angeles.

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Woods was traveling more than 80 mph when he lost control of the Genesis SUV and plowed into a tree. There were no signs that he was impaired, authorities said, and no charges were filed.

Woods, who has won 82 tournaments in a 25-year career, including five Masters championships, was charged with DUI in 2017. Soon afterward, he checked himself into a clinic for prescription drug abuse.

Authorities believe Woods tried to pump the brakes but accidentally gunned the accelerator in the crash in February. The SUV was going 75 mph when it hit the tree and went airborne.

Woods faced the possibility of amputation after he was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Golf Digest reported.

At one point, Woods wasn't sure "if I was going to walk out of that hospital with one leg," he told the magazine, adding that he still has "so far to go" to rehabilitate his leg.

"I'm not even at the halfway point yet," he said.

Tim Stelloh is a reporter for NBC News based in California.

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