Tiger Woods in major accident

[Anonymous]

Sports Illustrated had a great article titled "We Don't Know What Happened in Tiger Wood's Crash. And it's OK to Worry." The article touches briefly on his past substance abuse struggle but focuses on the fact that he is a father and he is a son and the focus should be on his children and his loved ones--including his mom. With all of the negative press out there I thought it was well done. The man has children. Think of them. If you pray, pray for them. Kicking someone when they are done doesn't do anyone any good--even the person doing the kicking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why this is such a big deal? Yes, I do hope he is okay but what's so special about him getting hurt? He plays golf for living. WTH?

+1 I hope he is okay, but he's just another athlete turned train wreck.

He continues to attract lots of personal chaos. He is 45 yo. I guess you cannot change tiger's stripes.

Earl (dad) had extramarital affairs of his own, which are presented as a deep-seeded contribution to the way Tiger began to chart his own path in the early 2000s. Classic inter generational trauma and dysfunction. Astronomical fame and $$ leads to a severe sense of entitlement and people covering for your poor behavior and not holding you accountable.

My friend's dad - a professional golfer with a well-known name - was on the Tour when Tiger joined the pros and began his ascent to greatness.

He told us that Tiger, even at the age of 20, was a grade-A assh#le. At that point, the Tour had stars - Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas, Phil Mickelson - but no true global superstars. Tiger came about right when the internet was being popularized and that helped send his fame through the roof. Tiger also expanded the game's popularity in Asia and it was a massive untapped market.

There was a camaraderie to being on the Tour - you saw the same guys every weekend in different cities. You were all away from your families. Yes, they were all insanely competitive but it was a brotherhood. You'd eat dinner together and share some drinks. You all shared the same locker room.

Tiger rejected all of that from the outset. He was an intense loner and demanded his own locker room, away from the others. He did not socialize with the other golfers and wasn't on friendly terms with most of them. Tiger made a lot of enemies on the Tour and it wasn't due to his success. In fact, Tiger was great for everyone - he brought in more eyeballs, more advertising dollars, bigger prize purses, and bigger sponsorship deals for every golfer. The money, in fact, trickled down. So everyone was rooting for Tiger's success, even if it meant he bumped guys from the winners podium.

But his sense of entitlement and ego has always been threw the roof. When you're the greatest, you don't need to be humble or play down your achievements. But you do need to be a good person. The sense I got from my friend's dad was that Tiger really wasn't a good person from the beginning. And no one on the Tour was surprised when his image crumbled under the weight of lies and scandal. It aligned with how he treated other golfers.

I'm sure everything you say is true. But I also think he had a pretty effed up childhood, so for that reason I've always felt kind of bad for him. I don't excuse anyone for being an *sshole, but I can see how he got that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sports Illustrated had a great article titled "We Don't Know What Happened in Tiger Wood's Crash. And it's OK to Worry." The article touches briefly on his past substance abuse struggle but focuses on the fact that he is a father and he is a son and the focus should be on his children and his loved ones--including his mom. With all of the negative press out there I thought it was well done. The man has children. Think of them. If you pray, pray for them. Kicking someone when they are done doesn't do anyone any good--even the person doing the kicking.

Except, everyone keeps enabling him and giving him a pass because of his golf game/$/fame.

Well- it was a curvy road blah blah. He was speeding. He has a track record of substance abuse (not sure if it was at okay). BUT he crossed over the double line, over the other lane and crashed on the opposite side of the road. God-willing he didn’t happen to kill an innocent child or another person because it surely would have been a fatality and a COMPLETELY different story if it wasn’t a single car accident.

Get this guy off the road and don’t allow him to drive his children. I would stipulate my kids are not to be driven by him—-only a driver/car service of I were Elin and I’d be having my lawyers draft that stipulation to the custody agreement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sports Illustrated had a great article titled "We Don't Know What Happened in Tiger Wood's Crash. And it's OK to Worry." The article touches briefly on his past substance abuse struggle but focuses on the fact that he is a father and he is a son and the focus should be on his children and his loved ones--including his mom. With all of the negative press out there I thought it was well done. The man has children. Think of them. If you pray, pray for them. Kicking someone when they are done doesn't do anyone any good--even the person doing the kicking.

Except, everyone keeps enabling him and giving him a pass because of his golf game/$/fame.

Well- it was a curvy road blah blah. He was speeding. He has a track record of substance abuse (not sure if it was at okay). BUT he crossed over the double line, over the other lane and crashed on the opposite side of the road. God-willing he didn’t happen to kill an innocent child or another person because it surely would have been a fatality and a COMPLETELY different story if it wasn’t a single car accident.

Get this guy off the road and don’t allow him to drive his children. I would stipulate my kids are not to be driven by him—-only a driver/car service of I were Elin and I’d be having my lawyers draft that stipulation to the custody agreement.

In an area of road that's known for crashes, he gets the same pass that others do. Not less, as you seem to want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sports Illustrated had a great article titled "We Don't Know What Happened in Tiger Wood's Crash. And it's OK to Worry." The article touches briefly on his past substance abuse struggle but focuses on the fact that he is a father and he is a son and the focus should be on his children and his loved ones--including his mom. With all of the negative press out there I thought it was well done. The man has children. Think of them. If you pray, pray for them. Kicking someone when they are done doesn't do anyone any good--even the person doing the kicking.

Except, everyone keeps enabling him and giving him a pass because of his golf game/$/fame.

Well- it was a curvy road blah blah. He was speeding. He has a track record of substance abuse (not sure if it was at okay). BUT he crossed over the double line, over the other lane and crashed on the opposite side of the road. God-willing he didn’t happen to kill an innocent child or another person because it surely would have been a fatality and a COMPLETELY different story if it wasn’t a single car accident.

Get this guy off the road and don’t allow him to drive his children. I would stipulate my kids are not to be driven by him—-only a driver/car service of I were Elin and I’d be having my lawyers draft that stipulation to the custody agreement.

In an area of road that's known for crashes, he gets the same pass that others do. Not less, as you seem to want.

He gets the same denial of that pass that others with DUIs on their record and a history of prescription drug use have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sports Illustrated had a great article titled "We Don't Know What Happened in Tiger Wood's Crash. And it's OK to Worry." The article touches briefly on his past substance abuse struggle but focuses on the fact that he is a father and he is a son and the focus should be on his children and his loved ones--including his mom. With all of the negative press out there I thought it was well done. The man has children. Think of them. If you pray, pray for them. Kicking someone when they are done doesn't do anyone any good--even the person doing the kicking.

Except, everyone keeps enabling him and giving him a pass because of his golf game/$/fame.

Well- it was a curvy road blah blah. He was speeding. He has a track record of substance abuse (not sure if it was at okay). BUT he crossed over the double line, over the other lane and crashed on the opposite side of the road. God-willing he didn’t happen to kill an innocent child or another person because it surely would have been a fatality and a COMPLETELY different story if it wasn’t a single car accident.

Get this guy off the road and don’t allow him to drive his children. I would stipulate my kids are not to be driven by him—-only a driver/car service of I were Elin and I’d be having my lawyers draft that stipulation to the custody agreement.

+1 he also was on drugs when he tried to flee in his car and crashed T-giving ‘09. In addition to his DUI in 2017. He’s been let go many times prior.

[Anonymous]

FFS:

His SUV struck a sign, crossed over a raised median and two oncoming lanes before it toppled down an embankment, coming to a halt on its side.

That’s pretty dramatic...and erratic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FFS:

His SUV struck a sign, crossed over a raised median and two oncoming lanes before it toppled down an embankment, coming to a halt on its side.

That’s pretty dramatic...and erratic.

He’s truly lucky he didn’t kill someone else.

[Anonymous]

This is the third time Woods has been involved in a car investigation. The most notorious was the early morning after Thanksgiving in 2009 when his SUV ran over a fire hydrant and hit a tree. That was the start of shocking revelations that he had been cheating on his wife with multiple women.

In May 2017, Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of the road. He was arrested on a DUI charge and said he had an unexpected reaction to prescription medicine for his back pain. Woods later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and checked into a clinic to get help with prescription medication and a sleep disorder.

[Anonymous]

Law-enforcement has said he was not intoxicated and will not be charged with a crime. They did not rule out distracted driving I said that would be an infraction not a crime. He also stated that this location has had 13 accidents since 2020. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Law-enforcement has said he was not intoxicated and will not be charged with a crime. They did not rule out distracted driving I said that would be an infraction not a crime. He also stated that this location has had 13 accidents since 2020. Yikes!

He “wasn’t intoxicated” but they didn’t do a BAL or too screen right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Law-enforcement has said he was not intoxicated and will not be charged with a crime. They did not rule out distracted driving I said that would be an infraction not a crime. He also stated that this location has had 13 accidents since 2020. Yikes!

They didn’t do a field test because of his injuries.

They should do a blood toxicology which would show drugs and/or alcohol if there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Law-enforcement has said he was not intoxicated and will not be charged with a crime. They did not rule out distracted driving I said that would be an infraction not a crime. He also stated that this location has had 13 accidents since 2020. Yikes!

They didn’t do a field test because of his injuries.

They should do a blood toxicology which would show drugs and/or alcohol if there.

But because he is Tiger, they did not do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Law-enforcement has said he was not intoxicated and will not be charged with a crime. They did not rule out distracted driving I said that would be an infraction not a crime. He also stated that this location has had 13 accidents since 2020. Yikes!

They didn’t do a field test because of his injuries.

They should do a blood toxicology which would show drugs and/or alcohol if there.

But because he is Tiger, they did not do it.

The blood toxicology report was not done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the third time Woods has been involved in a car investigation. The most notorious was the early morning after Thanksgiving in 2009 when his SUV ran over a fire hydrant and hit a tree. That was the start of shocking revelations that he had been cheating on his wife with multiple women.

In May 2017, Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of the road. He was arrested on a DUI charge and said he had an unexpected reaction to prescription medicine for his back pain. Woods later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and checked into a clinic to get help with prescription medication and a sleep disorder.

He’s had serious prescription drug addictions,, often mixed with alcohol. I know many pros can go that route due to the pain. He’s had 4 back surgeries.

But in 2009 it was Vicodin and ambience.