Peers of golf great Tiger Woods say he needs to face consequences after his DUI arrest in Florida following a rollover accident.
“I’m feeling bad for him, [but] I don’t like sugar-coating things,” former PGA golfer Mark Lye said during 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”
The former golf pro said there “has to be some accountability” for the five-time Masters champ, whom he called a “gift to golf.”
“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 added. “He’s got demons going on.”
Lye also said during the appearance that he wonders when “enough is enough” when it comes to indiscretions like Woods’ most recent arrest.
He also noted that there are often “morals clauses” in golf and pro athlete contracts, and worried that if “they don’t come down on him,” his problems could worsen.
“25 years of great golf can be erased in a heartbeat,” Lye said, expressing gratitude that Woods wasn’t injured in Friday’s rollover crash.
PGA Tour announcer Doug Bell also spoke out, per Fox News, echoing Lye’s gratitude that the crash wasn’t worse.
“It’s troublesome to see what happened yesterday,” Bell said, per the outlet, noting that it’s “a pattern that has developed” with Woods.
“Let’s hope this leads to something positive for one of the great athletes and figures in this world that we’ve seen in a long, long time,” he continued.
Bell also expressed sympathy for the physical pain Woods has endured following injuries sustained in a 2021 roller crash in Palos Verdes, Los Angeles.
“He’s dealing with something that we don’t know what’s going on inside his head, the pain that he’s in from all the surgeries,” he noted. Removing himself from golf “might be the best thing” for Woods, Bell said.
A rep for Woods did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment on Saturday.
Woods, 50, was arrested on Friday and charged with DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test following an afternoon incident in his Land Rover in Jupiter Island, Florida just after 2 p.m.
According to Sheriff John Budensiek, Woods was attempting to pass a pressure cleaning truck when he clipped the vehicle’s trailer before skidding and rolling.
After Woods showed “signs of impairment” at the scene, he showed a negative breathalyzer but refused to submit to a urinalysis.
Authorities said he crawled out of the vehicle following the crash, and was later seen making a phone callnext to the Land Rover. Woods was arrested and subsequently released overnight.
Friday’s was not Woods’ first brush with the law, nor his first auto collision.
Woods was left with multiple severe injuries following the 2021 rollover, and he’s since undergone knee, leg, and back surgeries.
In the midst of an infamous November 2009 cheating scandal that ended in divorce from Elin Nordegren — with whom he shares two children — he drove a Cadillac SUV into a neighbor’s tree in Florida.
He was knocked unconscious, and Nordegren subsequently helped him out of the vehicle — Woods was found to have been under the influence of sleeping pills.
And back in May 2017, the golf legend was arrested in Jupiter, Fla, on suspicion of driving under the influence.
An incident report alleged Woods had fallen asleep at the wheel of his Mercedes-Benz at the time and “had to be woken up.”
Tests later showed he had several medications in his system — including Dilaudid, Xanax, Vicodin, THC, and Ambien. He pleaded guilty to reckless driving and received a $250 and a year of probation.
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