Posted online: May 28, 2004 12:15 AM
Print publication date: May 28, 2004

Swanson out of hospital to rehab center

Staff report,

Tyler Swanson, the 20-year-old Iowa State University golfer injured in a single-car accident earlier this month, was released from University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City this week.

The Player of the Year on last summer's local amateur circuit will continue his recovery at a rehabilitation center. The sophomore was the top Cyclone player this spring during his sophomore season and missed out on a chance at the NCAA Division I regional tournament because of his hospitalization after the May 2 accident. He was ISU's top finisher in the Big 12 Meet, placing 19th out of 60 individuals. He also won his first collegiate event this spring.

``Every day since the accident, Tyler has shown signs of improvement,'' ISU golf coach Jay Horton said in a notice on the ISU website. ``We appreciate the tremendous support Tyler has received from everyone.''

For winning his Player of the Year honors on what is now the National City Bank Amateur Tour, Swanson earned an exemption into last fall's John Deere Classic. Then 19, Swanson became the first amateur off that tour to make the 36-hole cut and turn his chance in the field into a four-round experience.

Swanson and teammate Curtis Foster, a freshman from Independence, Iowa, were returning to Ames from Iowa City when the rollover accident happened around 3:25 a.m., about three miles east of the Grinnell exit on I-80. Foster suffered a broken vertebrae and has been in rehabiliation.