Tiger Woods car crash: The legendary golfer’s career in jeopardy

Star golfer Tiger Woods, the winner of 15 majors, suffered leg injuries in a car crash in the Los Angeles suburbs and was hospitalised with multiple injuries on Tuesday. (Reuters/File)

Tiger Woods was in the driver's seat of a mangled SUV that rolled and ended up on its side down a steep roadway in the Los Angeles suburbs Tuesday morning, seatbelt still fastened, both legs seriously injured. (Reuters)

His agent said Woods underwent surgery on his leg, and the injuries were described as serious. No charges were filed, police said there was no evidence he was impaired and no one else was injured. (Reuters)

This is the third time Woods has been involved in a car investigation. The most notorious was the early morning after Thanksgiving in 2009, when his SUV ran over a fire hydrant and hit a tree. (Reuters)

The crash happened about 7:15 a.m. on a sweeping, downhill stretch of a two-lane road through upscale suburbs. Gonzalez, the first to get to the wreck, said he sometimes catches people topping 80 mph in the 45 mph zone and crashes are common. (Reuters)

Thoughts and prayers have come from everywhere- Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, and former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, who has played golf with Woods and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. (Reuters/FILE)

It was the 10th surgery for Woods, who has suffered knee, back and neck problems for more than a decade. (Reuters)

The single-car crash was another setback for Woods, the preeminent golfer of his generation who has spent the last decade in a cycle of injuries, self-inflicted personal problems and an arrest for DUI. Each time, he returned to the course and won. (Reuters)