One former golf ace has blasted Tiger Woods for his actions.
Tiger Woods was arrested for DUI (Picture: Getty)
Sir Nick Faldo has branded golf authorities ‘predictably weak’ of their dealing with of Tiger Woods and insists the 15-time Main champion’s difficulties are totally “self-inflicted.” Woods revealed he was stepping away from public life following final week’s automotive crash and being charged with Driving Underneath Affect (DUI), which he denies.
It was introduced Woods will miss subsequent week’s Masters and the PGA Tour issued a press release, saying: “The PGA of America stands in full assist of Tiger Woods as he steps away to give attention to his well being and well-being. Throughout this time, we’re retaining Tiger in our ideas and prayers, with honest hope for his energy, consolation and restoration.”
Nevertheless, that response didn’t impress Faldo, who shall be at Augusta as an professional pundit for Sky Sports activities. The three-time Masters champion, 68, stated: “I have a look at the PGA Tour assertion and it was so predictably weak. The Tour will take care of him, as they all the time have finished.
Woods has a list of harmful automotive incidents to his identify – hitting a hearth hydrant in 2009, discovered asleep on the wheel after an “surprising response” to pharmaceuticals in 2017, and a near-fatal crash after dashing in 2021. Following the incident by which he rolled his Vary Rover close to his Jupiter Island house final Friday, a Florida police report revealed that Woods was present in possession of two hydrocodone tablets – an opioid prescribed for ache aid – and had admitted to taking prescription remedy that morning.
Officers additionally famous he appeared “torpid and sluggish” whereas “sweating profusely” with “extraordinarily dilated” pupils, and that his “regular colleges had been impaired”. It emerged on Wednesday that Woods had declined the place of United States Ryder Cup captain subsequent yr in Eire. Additionally on Wednesday, a Florida decide granted Woods’ request to journey exterior america to endure remedy at a specialist inpatient facility. Woods’ solicitor Douglas Duncan revealed that medical doctors have really helpful an “intensive, extremely individualised and medically built-in programme” for the golfer, away from the media and public scrutiny.
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