LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods stepped gingerly off the dais in the media room of the Riviera Country Club on Wednesday, being sure not to put too much weight on the surgically repaired right leg that he nearly lost — along with his life — in a single-car accident on the Palos Verdes Peninsula one year ago.
"It's altered," Woods, 46, said, when asked to describe the structure of the leg. "My right leg does not look like my left, put it that way. But I'm very lucky. I didn't know if I was gonna have the right leg or not, so to be able to have my right leg still there, it's huge."
Woods, according to the Los Angeles County sheriff, was driving at nearly twice the posted speed limit of 45 mph when he hit a sharp curve and his Genesis SUV crashed in Rolling Hills Estates last Feb. 23.
