Tiger Woods’ teammate addresses golfer’s ‘disturbing’ car crash, DUI arrest

Tiger Woods’ teammate said retired astir the golfer’s DUI arrest, calling it “very disturbing.”

Kevin Kisner, who’s Woods’ teammate connected nan indoor play convention Jupiter Links Golf Club of nan TGL, appeared connected NBC and said astir Woods’ mentality up of his car clang and DUI arrest.

“He was really moving difficult connected his game, trying to believe and get backmost successful shape,” he shared. “He signed up for nan U.S. Senior Open yesterday. He was trying to do thing he could to travel backmost and effort and thief our TGL team, get ready, hopefully effort and play nan Masters.”

Kisner called it “a really unfortunate incident.”

“The only affirmative is that is cipher was injured successful nan incident and we tin each move guardant and hopefully thief him get better,” he said.

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

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

Peers of Woods person spoken retired astir nan crash. Former PGA golfer Mark Lye said nan play awesome needs to look accountability aft his multiple brushes pinch nan rule and car crashes.

“I’m emotion bad for him, [but] I don’t for illustration sugar-coating things,” Lye said connected 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.”

He added, “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’s got demons going on.” 

Retired play pro Brandel Chamblee said that Woods needs to discontinue nan sport.

“Why would he request to play play anymore?” Chamblee told Golf Central in an question and reply connected Friday. “I deliberation he should astir apt inquire himself that. Consider not playing play anymore.”

Chamblee said it was clear Woods has a history of pushing himself beyond his beingness limit, “to nan grade that he keeps hurting himself.”

“Those surgeries and injuries travel on pinch prescribed symptom medication,” he said. “And unless you’ve had your caput successful nan soil for nan past 20 to 30 years, you tin link nan dots to nan symptom mediation and nan addiction to nan symptom medication.”