Tiger Woods has been rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a vehicle crash Tuesday left him seriously injured in the legs, according to a statement released Thursday.
Dr. Anish Mahajan said Woods, 45, was moved from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, which is about 18 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, “to continue orthopedic care and recovery.”
Woods was moved Wednesday night, two sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. Cedars-Sinai is approximately 21 miles north of Harbor-UCLA.
On Tuesday, Mahajan said Woods he suffered multiple “open fractures” in his lower right leg and had a wand placed in his tibia and screws and pins inserted in his foot and ankle during emergency surgery.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday that his department would not file charges against Woods related to the crash near the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, about 30 miles south of downtown of Los Angeles.
Villanueva said the department considers it an accident, which can result in at most one foul.
“He wasn’t drunk,” Villanueva said. “We can pull it off.”
Woods golf teammates continued to react to Thursday’s crash, including Phil Mickelson, who said players “understand and appreciate what it has meant to the game of golf and to us and the PGA Tour.”
“We all wait and pray for a full and quick recovery, but we’re also grateful, because it seemed awful, and we’re grateful he’s still with us,” Mickelson said from the Cologuard Classic, a Champions Tour event in Tucson. .
Bob Harig and ESPN’s The Associated Press contributed to this report.