Golfing champion Tiger Woods was hospitalised in Los Angeles on Tuesday with multiple injuries suffered when his car veered off a road and rolled down a steep hillside, requiring rescue crews to extricate him from the wreckage, authorities said.

Woods' injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, ESPN reported, citing police sources, despite video footage from the crash scene showing his dark grey Genesis sport utility vehicle badly crumpled and lying on its side near the bottom of the slope, windows smashed...