Tiger Woods suffered “multiple leg injuries” in a serious car crash on Tuesday morning and went into surgery after being pulled from his overturned car and taken to a hospital, his agent and the authorities said.
Mark Steinberg, Woods’s longtime agent, said in a statement around noon Pacific time that he was “currently in surgery.”
Steinberg added: “We thank you for your privacy and support.”
The crash happened about 7:12 a.m. on Tuesday near the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal city of about 42,000 people in Los Angeles County. Woods’s vehicle was traveling north on Hawthorne Boulevard at Blackhorse Road when it rolled over and crashed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.