Tiger Woods’ teammate spoke out about the golfer’s DUI arrest, calling it “very disturbing.”
Kevin Kisner, who’s Woods’ teammate on the indoor golf league Jupiter Links Golf Club of the TGL, appeared on NBC and spoke about Woods’ mentality ahead of his car crash and DUI arrest.
“He was really working hard on his game, trying to practice and get back in shape,” he shared. “He signed up for the U.S. Senior Open yesterday. He was trying to do anything he could to come back and try and help our TGL team, get ready, hopefully try and play the Masters.”
Kisner called it “a really unfortunate incident.”
“The only positive is that is nobody was injured in the incident and we can all move forward and hopefully help him get better,” he said.
Woods, 50, was arrested on Friday and charged with DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test following a car crash involving his Land Rover in Jupiter Island, Fla., just after 2 p.m.
Authorities said he crawled out of the vehicle following the crash, and was later seen making a phone call next to the Land Rover. Woods was arrested and subsequently released overnight.
Peers of Woods have spoken out about the crash. Former PGA golfer Mark Lye said the golf great needs to face accountability after his multiple brushes with the law and car crashes.
“I’m feeling bad for him, [but] I don’t like sugar-coating things,” Lye said on Saturday’s episode of “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“And the way I look at it, there’s got to be some sort of punishment or withdrawal or some sort of a suspension from the game.”
He added, “I’m just wondering where that discipline that he’s learned to convey on the golf course is [going to] take hold in his personal life. He’s got demons going on.”
Retired golf pro Brandel Chamblee said that Woods needs to quit the sport.
“Why would he need to play golf anymore?” Chamblee told Golf Central in an interview on Friday. “I think he should probably ask himself that. Consider not playing golf anymore.”
Chamblee said it was clear Woods has a history of pushing himself beyond his physical limit, “to the degree that he keeps hurting himself.”
“Those surgeries and injuries come along with prescribed pain medication,” he said. “And unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last 20 to 30 years, you can connect the dots to the pain mediation and the addiction to the pain medication.”
