British Open Commentator Makes TIger Woods Painkillers Declare

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Just about each golf fan is conscious of the well being points Tiger Woods has confronted in addition to the non-public battle he’s fought due to a number of the substances he’s used to handle them, however one commentator on the British Open discovered himself subjected to backlash due to an extremely out-of-pocket assertion he made throughout the opening spherical.

At this level, there’s no denying Tiger Woods is firmly within the twilight of his profession thanks in no small half to the lingering results of the debilitating accidents he sustained in a automobile crash in 2021 that just about led to his leg being amputated.

The golf legend was actually no stranger to bodily setbacks previous to that time, because the again points that required him to endure a number of surgical procedures within the mid-2010s basically ended a reign of dominance that spanned greater than 15 years.

These accidents are inextricably linked to the DUI cost he was hit with in 2017 after being pulled over in Florida with a cocktail of medicine (particularly THC, Xanax, Ambien, and a number of prescription painkillers) in his system, which led to him checking into an inpatient facility to get the issue underneath management.

There’s no method to understand how the 48-year-old is at present coping with the illnesses that proceed to hamper his play, though it looks as if there’s an excellent likelihood he’s one of many {many professional} athletes who make the most of the fashionable drugs at their disposal whereas working inside the guidelines of the game.

Nonetheless, one broadcaster overlaying the British Open made a really daring assertion whereas overlaying Tiger’s opening spherical on Thursday.

Mark Roe (a retired professional who performed on the European Tour and might be finest identified for being DQed from The Open in 2003) discovered himself subjected to a wave of criticism on-line when he determined to play the function of an armchair doctor by saying “You gotta assume there’s a variety of painkillers being taken,” a analysis he got here to as a result of…he checked out Tiger’s eyes?

Simply because you may say one thing doesn’t imply you must—particularly when your feedback are being broadcast all over the world.