I heard a revelation today that really got me thinking. It concerned Tiger Woods withdrawing on the final round of the Players' Championship on Sunday. The problem being that Tiger has evidently got a bulging disc in his neck that began causing him pain a couple of weeks prior to this year’s Masters Tournament.
When asked today at a press conference if he thought the injury could have been caused by the car accident he suffered last November, Woods stated there was “zero connection” between the two events.
Personally, I suffered a neck injury when I was a young man. The injury itself didn’t show up for several days but upon hearing what had happened my doctor told me it’s not unusual for injuries of this nature to have a delayed reaction showing up. I’ve suffered from that injury all of my life. I can play golf, but the pain is always there. At this point in my life, arthritis has now set in. I’ve learned to live with it.
The point is, Tiger’s neck problem could very well have been caused when he rammed his Escalade into both a fire hydrant and then a tree just down the street from his home in Windermere Florida. Police reports state that the vehicle was moving at between 27 and 30 MPH when the accident occurred since the vehicle’s air bags didn’t deploy. That is more than enough forward momentum to severely whiplash a person’s neck in a sudden stop like this was.
We’ve all heard the unsubstantiated assumption that Tiger was injured in that accident while trying to get away from his then enraged and now estranged wife who might have been going after him with a golf club.
Now this guy’s a multi-gazillionaire and can afford the very best doctors and treatments available anywhere, so if anyone can recover from an injury such as this it should be Tiger Woods. But consider this: Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if a car accident ultimately ruined Tiger Woods’ career, an accident that could very well have been the result of Tiger’s indiscretions and his enraged wife attempting to use one of his own golf clubs to crown the king of golf?
Considering the magnitude of Tiger’s wrong doing; The terrible effect his philandering acts have had on his marriage, his children and the lost admiration of the American public, it might well be proof there’s a God in Heaven if everything Woods has so carefully built and his apparently bright and historical golfing future came crashing down around him because of that accident less than six months ago.
Good one, man. You could send this one to TMZ...lol
ReplyDeleteThroughout sports history, the great unbeatables always beat themselves. Mike Tyson springs to mind.
Maybe Woods beating Jack's Majors record is not such a sure thing after all?
Gene,
ReplyDeleteThe way his career has hit the way lately and now this neck problem, it really makes me wonder if he still has a shot at the Majors title. Just a couple of years ago I thought it was a lock.
Another athlete that comes to mind concerning self-destruction is Alex Rodriguez. I think more people call him A-Hole instead of the original A-Rod! It fits!
Thanks for the comments!
Ah it would be such sweet poetic justice! I had no idea his head rest was split in two...ah, how did that happen? Putter?! Really its too bad his wife didnt make contact with that club to the temple. Oops! Am I condoning Domestic Violence!?!?
ReplyDeleteIf it didn't cause it, it surely exacerbated it...
BTW Dwindy - please feel free to "advertise" your blogs on Lugnuts they way most do. Just do a blog on there, do a title and under the title paste in the address to this blog and we can click the title to get here. You'll get more eyeballs that way!
KLV-
ReplyDeleteI don't think the headrest is broken, but maybe. I thought the light creates that effect...
Did you have to see the Golf Digest magazine that came out right after all of this Tiger with his babes stuff hit the news. The front cover has President Obama squatted down studying a putt with Tiger bent over behind him like he's giving the President advise on how to play the putt. The headline reads "Ten Tips Obama Can Take From Tiger"!
The magazine had already gone to press and there was no way they could stop it. Needless to say the publisher was sorry all over the place.
I think I understand what you're telling me. You want a tag on Lugnuts so that the whole article isn't shown on that page. I'll post another NASCAR piece in the next couple of days and try to set it up your way.
Thanks for the comments and the advise.
Ah, I see it now its just the shadow from the broken window. Blink and look at it another way and it looks like its cut in half! LOL
ReplyDeleteI didnt see that Gold Digest. Now thats funny.
You dont have to put up a "tag" on Lugnuts - just letting you know your welcome to do it!! Love that you posted your actual nascar HOF blog on there...do it either way and any way you want!! Doesnt have to only be sports related either...whatever you want.
Some people like all their blogs on their personal blog so they can find them, reference them etc and others split their posts between their own and Lugnuts and some post in both places. Totally up to you just wanted to make sure you knew how to do it.
Opps. meant Golf digest! LOL
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