Golf pro not prepared to rule out Tiger comeback

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Tiger Woods whitethorn person suffered important injuries successful a horrific car crash, but chap pro Justin Thomas believes the play fable is not done playing the crippled conscionable yet.

Woods suffered superior limb injuries successful a single-vehicle rollover mishap adjacent Los Angeles connected February 23, wherever his SUV crossed a median, went crossed 2 lanes of road, past deed a histrion and landed connected the driver's broadside successful the brush.

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Details of Woods' carnal information person been scant successful the months pursuing the 45-year-old's crash, but Thomas, who regularly visits Woods, was not prepared to gully a enactment connected his friend's singular career.

"I cognize that he's going to try," Thomas told the No Laying Up podcast this week.

Tiger Woods celebrates connected the 18th greenish aft winning the Masters astatine Augusta National successful 2019. (Getty)

"I don't spot him ever playing if helium can't play well. He doesn't onslaught maine arsenic a feline who's played astatine location and he's shooting a clump of 75s and 76s and he's similar 'Okay, I'm gonna springiness Augusta a effort this year.' That's not truly gonna beryllium him, astatine slightest from my understanding, what I cognize of him.

"He knows that there's a beauteous bully accidental that that was the past accidental helium truly ever had, earlier that, of making different run, but astatine the aforesaid clip I cognize however determined helium is and I cognize he's going to privation to astatine slightest effort to springiness thing again.

"Obviously I anticipation helium does. But astatine the aforesaid time, arsenic I said aft the accident, arsenic agelong arsenic helium tin beryllium a dada and beryllium mean with that again, that's the fig 1 priority, and the remainder of this is simply a bonus."

Tiger Woods and right, his crashed conveyance (Getty)

While Thomas admitted that Woods' existent regular was comparatively repetitive, helium said the play icon remained successful bully spirits.

"He's inactive his sarcastic a-- aforesaid truthful thing has changed there, truthful I'm gladsome to spot that he's inactive chipper arsenic always," helium said.

"He's doing well. Especially each things considered. It's Groundhog Day, each day's the nonstop aforesaid happening for him. But astatine slightest he's capable to — pictures were going astir of him astatine [his son] Charlie's tournament, [his daughter] Sam's shot tournaments present and there. He's capable to beryllium a Dad somewhat again, which is astir important."

Woods' adjacent nationalist quality is yet to beryllium determined, though it could travel successful December's Hero World Challenge, wherever helium is the tourney host.

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