UPDATED: Tiger Woods Injured in Serious Car Accident

UPDATED: Tiger Woods Injured in Serious Car Accident

Golf great Tiger Woods was injured in a serious auto accident in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA on Tuesday.

CNN reported that he is was in surgery on Tuesday afternoon and he suffered multiple leg injuries.

There are few details about the accident by video shows a one car accident. Responders reportedly used the jaws-of-life to remove Woods from the wreckage.

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As part of a statement on Woods' official Twitter account, Dr. Anish Mahajan of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center said that Woods had multiple "open fractures" to his lower right leg, and he had a rod placed in his tibia and screws and pins inserted in his foot and ankle during an emergency surgery.

"Comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula bones were stabilized by inserting a rod into the tibia," said Mahajan, the chief medical officer and interim CEO at Harbor-UCLA. "Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins. Trauma to the muscle and soft-tissue of the leg required surgical release of the covering of the muscles to relieve pressure due to swelling."