Tiger Woods was transferred from the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on Thursday to continue what experts described as a long and uncertain recovery.

Woods was operated on on Tuesday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, with surgery on his right shinbone and calf bone, plus his foot and ankle.

Two days later, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai, CNN reported. 

Woods’ team has not issued an update on his condition since Tuesday night, when they described his surgery and said he was awake and resting. The 45-year-old could require further surgery.

‘He is still in that acute phase where they may still have a lot of work to do in the present, in moments, in days to come,’ said Dr Jeremy Faust, emergency physician Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

He told CNN on Wednesday: ‘It’s unclear to me whether he will be going back to the operating room or not.’  

It comes as sources close to the star told Variety that the ‘frustrated’ golfer ‘doesn’t want his career to end like this’.

The insider said: ‘If there’s any way at all that he can continue playing golf, he will.’

Investigators are still looking into the horrific high speed crash, which Woods was lucky to survive.

Questions have been raised about why Woods had not been tested for drugs or alcohol in the wake of the crash. 

But police sources told TMZ there were no drugs or alcohol inside of the golf superstar’s Genesis GV80 and that he was alert when rushed to hospital following the horror smash in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. 

Officials say they would have needed a warrant and probable cause to take blood; this was not the case for Woods.  

Speaking during a Q&A on Facebook on Wednesday, LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva had already confirmed there would be no criminal charges against Woods. 

He later told CNN that Woods does not remember the crash, which left him with open fractures on his tibia and fibula. 

‘At the hospital he was asked about it by the investigators and he had no recollection of the crash itself,’ Villanueva added. 

Speaking earlier on Wednesday, Villanueva had said: ‘There was no evidence of any impairment whatsoever. He was lucid, no odor of alcohol, no evidence of any medication, narcotics or anything like that. That was not a concern so no field sobriety test and no drug expert needed to respond. 

‘This is what it is – an accident.’

Woods rolled the Genesis GV80 at 7.12am, less than 15 minutes after driving out of the Terranea Resort in Ranchos Palos Verdes, where witnesses said he seemed ‘impatient’ and eager to get on the road. 

Asked if he may face charges, Villanueva said: ‘No. A reckless driving charge has a lot of elements to it. This was purely an accident. ‘ 

Sheriff’s Deputy Carlos Gonzalez, who was first on the scene, had confirmed: ‘At the scene, we’re looking for evidence of intoxication like if there’s an odor of an alcoholic beverage or there’s an open container or prescription medication.

‘At this time we didn’t see any evidence of impairment and anything beyond that in terms of the medical toxicology, I wouldn’t be aware at this time.’  

He told Today on Wednesday morning that he did not recognize the famous golfer when he arrived, and that he just saw ‘eyes’ when he peered through the window.

‘I don’t think he was aware of how gravely he was injured at the time. It could be a mixture of adrenaline, it could’ve been shock.

‘Again it was very quick, the moment that I arrived from the moment that he rolled over, so I don’t know if he had time to fully assess his injuries,’ he said

Woods was wearing his seatbelt. 

Initially, it was claimed by the sheriff’s department that Woods was pried from the wreckage by the jaws of life. Later the sheriffs said that the fire department used an axe to chop through the windscreen and free him.

Woods has been recovering from back surgery and taking a break from professional golf, though he was expected to return sometime later this year. 

It is not clear whether he was taking pain medication, although he has taken opioid medication after back surgery in the past, which resulted in an addiction.

In 2017 he was arrested for DUI after police found him slumped in his car in Florida with five drugs in his system, including two two painkillers. He subsequently checked into rehab for painkiller addiction.

He was involved in another high-profile crash in 2009 when he hit a fire hydrant after being chased from his home by then-wife Elin Nordegren, which led him to admit to multiple affairs and drug use. 

Woods’ girlfriend Erica Herman was pictured visiting him in the hospital on Wednesday along with his caddie Joe LaCava. It’s unclear when he will be released from the hospital, or if his children and ex-wife are there.

Authorities say they do plan to pull the car’s black box to find out more and that he was pulled out of a windshield. 

Woods was on his way to the Rolling Hills Country Club, 10 miles away, where he was due to meet New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and L.A. Chargers’ quarterback Justin Herbert to film a show for GolfTV. They were due to meet at 7.30am and the drive ordinarily takes around 20 minutes.

Sources told FOX News that he was late leaving the hotel after having to wait longer than expected to get his car from the valet. He was picked up by road cameras driving safely, within the speed limit of 45mph at at 7.05am.

The crash site is a known problem area, according to sheriffs who said on Tuesday they have seen people fly down the road at almost twice that speed.

The exact spot where he crash is at a point in the road where it widens and is downhill. The sheriffs said people tend to put their foot on the gas prematurely without factoring in that their speed will naturally increase.

There is a gravel runaway ramp after it to slow people down and there’s also a net in the central median to try to stop out-of-control cars from rolling over onto the other side of the road.

It’s unconfirmed what speed Tiger was traveling at or what exactly caused him to crash but he plowed through the central reservation, rolled several times and ended up on a grassy verge on the other side of the road.

He suffered open fractures on his tibia and fibula – where the bone splinters into two or more pieces and comes through the skin – and had a rod inserted in his tibia, with his foot and ankle ‘stabilized with a combination of screws and pins’.

On Tuesday night, he was conscious, sitting up and responding to his loved ones. 

The crash occurred when Woods was driving at a ‘greater speed than normal,’ Villanueva said at a press conference on Tuesday.

‘[The vehicle] crossed the center divider, to the point that it rested several hundred feet away so obviously that indicates they were going at a relatively – a greater speed than normal.

‘However, because it is downhill, it slopes and it also curves. That area has a high frequency of accidents. It’s not uncommon,’ he said.

He added that while the front end of the car was ‘totally destroyed’, the interior was ‘more or less intact’.  

Oliver Konteh, who is part of a TV crew filming show ‘Grown-ish’ at the five-star Terranea Resort where Woods was staying, said he saw the athlete get into his $50,000 Genesis GV80 SUV shortly before 7am as he headed to the Rolling Hills Country Club – where he was due to tee off with Drew Brees at 7.30am. 

He had been loaned the car by Genesis while hosting the PGA Genesis Invitational over the weekend.

Konteh said Woods was blocked for a short time by another vehicle that was unloading luggage, and by the time he left he looked ‘agitated and impatient’.

He told TMZ that Woods ‘took off fast’ and almost hit another car belonging to the ‘Grown-ish’ director as he left the parking lot, just after 7am.

A front door camera then captured Woods driving at normal speed around 7.05am along Hawthorne Boulevard, around five miles south of the spot where he would later crash. 

On Monday, he filmed with Jada Pinkett Smith, Dwyane Wade and David Spade for a series which involves him giving celebrities golfing lessons.

On Tuesday he was scheduled to film with NFL stars Drew Brees, quarterback with the New Orleans Saints, and Justin Herbert, quarterback with the Los Angeles Chargers.

He lives in Florida but was in California over the weekend to host the PGA Genesis Invitational tournament. 

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Source: Los Angeles Times