Tiger Woods’ PGA peers push for ‘accountability’ after golf icon’s DUI arrest

Peers of play awesome Tiger Woods opportunity he needs to look consequences aft his DUI apprehension successful Florida pursuing a rollover accident.

“I’m emotion bad for him, [but] I don’t for illustration sugar-coating things,” erstwhile PGA golfer Mark Lye said during Saturday’s section of “Fox & Friends Weekend.”

“And nan measurement I look astatine it, there’s sewage to beryllium immoderate benignant of reward aliases withdrawal aliases immoderate benignant of a suspension from nan game”

The erstwhile play pro said location “has to beryllium immoderate accountability” for nan five-time Masters champ, whom he called a “gift to golf.”

“I’m conscionable wondering wherever that subject that he’s learned to convey connected nan play people is [going to] return clasp successful his individual life,” he added. “He’s got demons going on.” 

Lye besides said during nan quality that he wonders erstwhile “enough is enough” erstwhile it comes to indiscretions for illustration Woods’ astir caller arrest.

He besides noted that location are often “morals clauses” successful play and pro jock contracts, and worried that if “they don’t travel down connected him,” his problems could worsen.

“25 years of awesome play tin beryllium erased successful a heartbeat,” Lye said, expressing gratitude that Woods wasn’t injured successful Friday’s rollover crash.

PGA Tour announcer Doug Bell besides said out, per Fox News, echoing Lye’s gratitude that nan clang wasn’t worse.

“It’s troublesome to spot what happened yesterday,” Bell said, per nan outlet, noting that it’s “a shape that has developed” pinch Woods.

“Let’s dream this leads to thing affirmative for 1 of nan awesome athletes and figures successful this world that we’ve seen successful a long, agelong time,” he continued.

Bell besides expressed sympathy for nan beingness symptom Woods has endured pursuing injuries sustained successful a 2021 roller clang successful Palos Verdes, Los Angeles.

“He’s dealing pinch thing that we don’t cognize what’s going connected wrong his head, nan symptom that he’s successful from each nan surgeries,” he noted. Removing himself from play “might beryllium nan champion thing” for Woods, Bell said.

A rep for Woods did not instantly return Page Six’s petition for remark connected Saturday.

Woods, 50, was arrested connected Friday and charged pinch DUI pinch spot harm and refusal to taxable to a lawful trial pursuing an day incident successful his Land Rover successful Jupiter Island, Florida conscionable aft 2 p.m.

According to Sheriff John Budensiek, Woods was attempting to walk a unit cleaning motortruck erstwhile he clipped nan vehicle’s trailer earlier skidding and rolling.

After Woods showed “signs of impairment” astatine nan scene, he showed a antagonistic breathalyzer but refused to taxable to a urinalysis.

Authorities said he crawled retired of nan conveyance pursuing nan crash, and was later seen making a telephone telephone next to nan Land Rover. Woods was arrested and subsequently released overnight.

Friday’s was not Woods’ first brushwood pinch nan law, nor his first car collision.

Woods was near pinch aggregate terrible injuries pursuing nan 2021 rollover, and he’s since undergone knee, leg, and backmost surgeries.

In nan midst of an infamous November 2009 cheating ungraded that ended successful divorce from Elin Nordegren — pinch whom he shares 2 children — he drove a Cadillac SUV into a neighbor’s character successful Florida.

He was knocked unconscious, and Nordegren subsequently helped him retired of nan conveyance — Woods was recovered to person been nether nan power of sleeping pills.

And backmost successful May 2017, nan play fable was arrested in Jupiter, Fla, connected suspicion of driving nether nan influence.

An incident study alleged Woods had fallen dormant astatine nan wheel of his Mercedes-Benz astatine nan clip and “had to beryllium woken up.”

Tests later showed he had respective medications successful his strategy — including Dilaudid, Xanax, Vicodin, THC, and Ambien. He pleaded blameworthy to reckless driving and received a $250 and a twelvemonth of probation.