Tiger Woods insisted Monday that there was no connection between the neck injury that prompted him to withdraw from the Players Championship on Sunday and the injuries he sustained in the car accident in November that unraveled his image. He also called his schedule “up in the air” and said he did not know if he would be able to play in the United States Open in June.
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A struggling Tiger Woods said he had no plans to fire his swing coach, Hank Haney. “We have a lot of work to do,” Woods said.Related
oods, speaking at a news conference at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., to promote the AT&T National, said that the injury was causing pain and spasms in his neck and that it flared up during his comeback from a five-month hiatus.
“One of the reasons why I think this thing flared up is because I wasn’t conditioned to it,” Woods said at the news conference. “I had been away from the game for such a long time and came back and ramped up really quickly in order to try and play the Masters. The body wasn’t quite ready for that.”
He said he would know more about the injury after a magnetic resonance imaging test, which he said would take place when he returned home to Orlando, Fla.
Apparently, Woods will have to solve his injury problems without the help of his swing coach Hank Haney, who told the Golf Channel that he had resigned. Woods had said at the news conference that he was not going to fire Haney, as had been widely speculated.
“In many ways because of all the time I have spent with Tiger, I may have learned more from him than he has ever learned from me,” Haney said in a statement to the Golf Channel. “However, I believe at this time that it is in both of our best interests for me to step aside as Tiger’s coach.”
Woods said earlier that he and Haney had “a lot of work to do.”
Speculation that Woods’s neck injury stemmed from the Nov. 27 incident in which he crashed his sport utility vehicle near his home began because Woods had said that accident had left him with “a pretty sore neck.” On Monday he said there was “zero connection” between the accident and his current injury.
This problem, he said, cropped up about two weeks before the Masters. “I thought it was just sore and no big deal,” he said. “But as I kept playing, kept practicing, it never got better.” sports
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