With the Masters just six-plus weeks away, Woods said on Sunday that he wasn’t certain he would be ready to play in the event, the year’s first major championship, after undergoing a fifth back surgery in December.
A KABC-TV helicopter over the scene of Woods’ accident showed a car on its side with the front end heavily damaged. Air bags appeared to be deployed. The wreckage appeared to be just off the side of a road on a hillside.
Woods, whose first name is Eldrick, was the sole occupant of the vehicle, the sheriff’s department said.
The crash occurred shortly before 7.15am on Tuesday (US time), officials said.
