Tiger Woods’ withdrawal from own event is golf great’s latest bizarre episode
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. Were runnng out of bizarre scenes and circumstances with Tiger Woods.
For more than two decades, Woods wowed the world with what he was able to do on the golf course, winning 15 major championships, 82 tournaments overall and dominating the sport like no one ever has.
Now, Woods has morphed into a sad sideshow, a space that makes you wonder why he keeps putting himself through this at age 48 and seemingly with a new health issue every time he turns up for a tournament.
The latest drama involving Woods featured him being driven off the course in the middle of his Genesis Invitational second round Friday at Riviera Country Club and withdrawing after what was described as an illness.
What ensued from there was, quite frankly, bizarre even by Woods standards.
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A Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance backed up to a service entrance of the clubhouse and sat there for about 45 minutes before someone emerged from the clubhouse and said, Hes not coming out.
With that, an empty stretcher was carried from inside the building and slipped into the ambulance before it drove away, along with two fire trucks.
A short time after that, Woods manager and business partner, Rob McNamara, issued a statement, saying that Woods started feeling some flu-like symptoms last night, woke up this morning, they were worse than the night previous. He had a little bit of a fever and was better during the warm-up, but then when he got out there and was walking and playing, he started feeling dizzy. Ultimately the doctors are saying hes got some type of flu and that he was dehydrated. Hes been treated with an IV bag and hes doing much, much better.
Shortly after McNamaras statement was released, Woods finally emerged from the locker room at 3:45 p.m. local time and gingerly got into the passenger seat of a red SUV and was driven off. Whether he, as the tournament host with his foundation, sticks around through the weekend to present the winner the trophy is not known.
Tiger Woods suddenly withdrew from the Genesis Invitational during the second round on Feb. 16, 2024. APMcNamara clarified that Woods issues on Friday have nothing to do with the structural issues he has been dealing with since his back and foot were surgically fused.
Not physical at all, McNamara said. His backs fine. It was all medical illness, dehydration, which is now the symptoms are reversing themselves now that hes had an IV.
The good news is that this latest drama had nothing to do with Woods previous physical ailments, that there were no apparent setbacks.
The more sobering news is this: Since Woods crashed his SUV at a high rate of speed into trees the day after the 2021 Genesis Invitational, hes played in just six 72-hole PGA Tour events and finished just two of them with three withdrawals and a missed cut accounting for the other four.
Tiger Woods gets into a vehicle after withdrawing from the Genesis Invitational. APThis has become Woods sad reality now.
And it makes you wonder why he keeps coming back. With all the wins and the countless hundreds of millions hes made he doesnt need it anymore. But what surely tantalizes Woods is that hes still able to hit the ball flush, can still putt and still do the many of things he always used to.
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Sometimes.
Its clear he still burns to compete and doesnt want to let go of that.
Woods looks like an aging star whos trying to convince himself he can still win even though he hasnt won since his historic 2019 Masters victory.
Woods, who was playing alongside Gary Woodland and Justin Thomas, didnt look right during the six-plus holes he played on Friday.
He curiously used one of the portable toilets while playing the fifth hole before putting out, which is unusual. He then went back in again after finishing the fifth hole before teeing off on the sixth.
He appeared to grimace when he hit his tee shot on the seventh hole, as if hed hit a poor shot, but the ball landed in the middle of the fairway. That ended up being his last swing of the tournament as a tournament rules official was called over with a cart to drive him to the clubhouse, where the ambulance drama was about to begin.
I saw it, he obviously wasnt himself, just didnt look right, Woodland said. I saw that before the round started. It sucks. Obviously, everythings better with him there and for him for his first tournament back and he couldnt come out and finish the way he wanted to, that sucks for all of us.
He just didnt look right. He was quieter. Obviously, its cut day, were all trying to play well, especially the whole groups trying to focus and pick ourselves up and play well. I feel bad for him. He definitely was trying to fight through it and I hope hes all right.
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