Tate returns to the Swans squad for Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round trip to Bolton for the first time since the accident, having made three recent appearances for the reserves as he completes his comeback a month ahead of schedule.
The 29-year-old former Manchester United player is revelling in the chance to pull on a Swansea shirt for the first time since leading the club in their Premier League opener at Manchester City, after worrying that his misfortune would bring his playing days to a premature end.
"I am just delighted, it has been a long road but this was the light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "If I can get myself on the bench and play some part in the game, it will be great.
"I wasn't just worried that I would be out for the season, when it happens and before you actually get a diagnosis from the doctor you think 'Is that my career over?'
"I knew I had broken my leg but I didn't know what else I had done.
"Obviously I went to hospital and they were checking ligaments and cartilage and everything else and you are thinking is it worse than you originally thought.
"As soon as they started talking about ligaments and cruciates, I was thinking if it's that, I will be out for a lot longer than if it's a straight break.
"But it was clean break so I suppose I was quite lucky. If I was going to break my leg, that was probably the best way to break it."
Tate, who has played for Swansea in all four league divisions, says he feels no bitterness at missing so much of Swansea's maiden Premier League campaign, having played a big part in their promotion, and revealed he has very clear recollections of the "bizarre" accident.
"I can remember everything about the crash," he said. "We teed off on the 12th and mine was straight as usual.
"Jamie Yates, my mate, teed off and he had gone right so I was driving the buggy towards my ball when he asked me to go and get his.
"I turned the buggy around and I was going down the hill on wet grass, which is not a good idea. I lost control of it and tried to straighten it up.
"I put my foot on the break lost control again and we were heading straight for the trees on the right hand side. I turned the wheel to miss one tree and we are heading straight for another one.
"So, Jamie jumped out right and I decided to follow his lead by jumping out to the left. I jumped into a tree and my leg got trapped between the tree and the buggy.
"It snapped my leg."
Tate says the incident has not put him off returning to the golf course.
"I haven't been in a buggy since but I would drive one again. I've even been out two weeks ago to pick up my clubs," he added.
Having gone through a gruelling five-month rehabilitation Tate is now within sight of pulling on the white jersey again, a prospect he says kept him going throughout the long road back to fitness.
"I can't wait to pull on the Swansea shirt again, it will be brilliant.
"From the time of the diagnosis it is all I have been able to think of. I just wanted to come here and play again.
"To play for the club in the city you love living in and for the fans who appreciate us as much as we appreciate them, is brilliant.
"There is still a little way to go, it's not quite 100 per cent yet. I got through 90 minutes with the reserves and I think I could do that again.
"I would be stiff for two or three days afterwards but i could do it. I think the adrenalin would get me through it. I felt okay in the reserves and if I play a part this weekend, be it 10 or 15 minutes, it will be great."
