Woods says neck injury not related to crash
Tiger Woods is driven off the golf course after Woods withdrew on the seventh hole during the final round of The Players Championship on May 9, 2010 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Credit: Getty Images
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Tiger Woods says there is "no connection" between the neck pain that forced him to withdraw from The Players Championship and his Nov. 27 car accident.
Woods says during a news conference Monday that his neck started bothering him in the weeks leading up to the Masters, his first competition in five months. Woods says he feels pain in the right side of his neck.
He says he can deal with the pain but cannot deal with the spasms that affect his ability to turn his head. Woods withdrew from The Players Championship on Sunday with an injury that he fears might be a bulging disk in his upper back.
Woods was sent to an Orlando, Fla., hospital after his middle-of-the-night accident for a sore neck and a cut lip.
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