re: Tiger Woods injured in car crash

Hogan was recovering from his injuries nicely, then the doctors found that blood clots were traveling up from his legs and without any kind of anti-clotting drugs like we have today, they were helpless. They found a big one that was going to kill him for sure making its way up from his legs. So, someone called the best vascular surgeon in the US who happened to live in New Orleans. The Air Force sent a B-29 bomber down to pick him up and they flew him to El Paso. He got a police escort to the hospital and he went immediately into surgery on Hogan. All they could do to stop the clots was to tie off the main artery bringing blood back up from his legs. It was a permanent and irreversible operation. It saved his life, but it meant that his legs would painfully swell with the slightest exertion for the rest of his life. They thought it would be a miracle if he ever walked anything halfway close to normally again. Playing golf against, much less at the highest level was unthinkable.

Of course, he won another four or five majors after that but his schedule became increasingly limited. Still he won all three majors he played in 1953. Remember in those days, there was no golf on Sunday. Two rounds were played on Saturdays. So with those legs Hogan had to walk 36 holes on a Saturday to win.