Golf News : This leg will never be what it used to be , but Tiger is 'on the positive side'

Tiger Woods says he's at peace with his career thanks to his 2019 Masters win as he comes to term with what his golf career will look like following his car accident.

Woods was speaking in his first news conference since he badly damaged his right leg in a car crash on February 23rd and expanded on comments a day earlier where he said he didn't see himself playing full-time professional golf again.

The 15-time major champion, who is tournament host of the Hero World Challenge this week, raised hopes of another comeback when Woods posted a three-second video hitting a short iron with the message, "Making progress."

When asked if it was difficult to have his career stopped so suddenly, Woods said his 2019 Masters win has given him comfort.

"No, it's very easy (to accept it), given the fact that I was able to come back after the fusion surgery and do what I did," Woods said. "I got that last major and I ticked off two more events along the way."

Woods was recovering from another back procedure at the start of the year when he ran his SUV over a median and it toppled down a steep hill on a winding, sweeping road in the Los Angeles suburbs on his way to a television shoot at a golf course.

Doctors said he shattered tibia and fibula bones in his right leg in multiple locations. Those were stabilized by a rod in the tibia. A combination of screws and pins were used to stabilize additional injuries in the ankle and foot.

He last played at the PNC Championship with his son, Charlie, and then had a fifth back procedure that kept him out the early part of the year before the accident.

Woods already had one remarkable comeback, winning the Masters in 2019 after fusion surgery, his fourth on his lower back. He won the Zozo Championship in Japan later in the year for his 82nd career victory on the PGA Tour, tying Sam Snead for the all-time record.

"I don't foresee this leg ever being what it used to be, hence I'll never have the back what it used to be, and clock's ticking," Woods said. "I'm getting older, I'm not getting any younger. All that combined means that a full schedule and a full practice schedule and the recovery that it would take to do that, no, I don't have any desire to do that."

Woods is to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in March. The Masters is the first full week of April. Woods didn't have a timetable, only that he wished the recovery was going faster than it was.

He said he could envision a career like Ben Hogan after his near-fatal car accident. Hogan played a limited schedule, though he still dominated the majors, including winning all three that he played in 1953.