Tiger Woods left ‘touched’ as Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and others wear his signature red and black colours during WGC-Workday Championship as he is moved to a different Los Angeles hospital to continue recovery after car crash
- Tiger Woods has thanked fellow golfers who wore red and black in his honour
- Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood were among those in his signature colours
- Woods has been moved to a second Los Angeles hospital to continue recovery
- He said the ‘touching’ gesture at WGC-Workday was helping keep his spirits up
Tiger Woods has expressed his gratitude for the ‘touching’ gesture of players wearing his signature red and black for the final round of the WGC-Workday Championship as he continues to recover from a car crash.
The golfer, who had previously said he was in ‘good spirits’ after being moved to a second hospital in Los Angeles for treatment from multiple injuries sustained in the incident, added that his fellow competitors and fans were aiding in his recovery.
Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood were among the players to wear red and black, while Woods’s close friend Justin Thomas wore a near-replica of the striped shirt Woods wore in the final round of the 2019 Farmers Insurance Open.
Rory McIlroy wore red and black to honour Tiger Woods at the WGC-Workday Championship
Woods, recovering from a car crash, famously wears the two colours on a tournament Sunday
Tiger took to Twitter to thank those who wore red and black for the ‘touching’ gesture
Woods said on Twitter: ‘It is hard to explain how touching today was when I turned on the tv and saw all the red shirts.
‘To every golfer and every fan, you are truly helping me get through this tough time.’
As Tiger continues his rehabilitation, more details of his horrific car accident last Tuesday have emerged from a fire fighter at the scene.
Cole Gommoll told the Associated Press how he chopped carefully along the front windscreen with an axe. Woods, tangled in his seatbelt and covered in a sheet to avoid shards of glass, was in an obvious state of shock.
Gommoll and a colleague then peeled back the windscreen, allowing a backboard stretcher to be inserted to get Woods out of the car. Within minutes, the 15-time major champion was on his way to a trauma specialist hospital for the lengthy surgery that would save his right leg.
Woods was moved to a second Los Angeles hospital to continue his recovery at the weekend
Nike golfers Tommy Fleetwood (left) and Cameron Champ (right) also wore red and black
American golfer and 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed also sported the tribute colours
On Thursday, Woods was transferred to another hospital in the city used by many top sportsmen for orthopaedic care and recovery, where he underwent further medical procedures. It’s not known when he will be well enough to return to Florida.
Earlier, Collin Morikawa fittingly emulated one of Woods’s achievements with victory in the championship in Florida.
Morikawa carded a closing 69 at The Concession Golf Club to finish 18 under par, three shots clear of Brooks Koepka, Viktor Hovland and Billy Horschel.
Morikawa joins Woods as the only player to have won a major championship and WGC event before turning 25, the 24-year-old claiming the US PGA Championship in 2020 in just his second major appearance.
Collin Morikawa emerged victorious at the WGC Championship, claiming his first title
‘Tiger means everything to me,’ Morikawa told the Golf Channel.
‘Yes he had the crash and thankfully he’s all right and hopefully he has a quick and great recovery, but I don’t think we say thank you enough so I want to say thank you to Tiger.
‘Sometimes you lose people too early, I lost my grandpa about a month ago and you don’t get to say thank you enough.’