Retired golf pro Brandel Chamblee urged Tiger Woods to hang up his golf clubs after the latter’s shocking DUI arrest.
“Why would he need to play golf anymore?” the former athlete told Golf Central in an interview on Friday.
“I think he should probably ask himself that. Consider not playing golf anymore.”
“It’s clear that Tiger Woods has a history of pushing himself to his physical limit,” Chamblee, 63, said, referring to the PGA golfer’s past injuries and prescription drug usage.
“Beyond his physical limit,” Chamblee added, “to the degree that he keeps hurting himself, injuring himself, requiring surgeries.”
“Those surgeries and injuries come along with prescribed pain medication,” he continued. “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.”
Chamblee doubled down that he wasn’t speculating what might have been in Woods’ system at the time of his DUI on Friday.
“We have to let the facts play out,” he said.
A rep for Woods wasn’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.
Woods was arrested for driving under the influence after his car rolled over in a crash in Jupiter Island, Fla., on Friday.
The PGA golfer’s breathalyzer test was negative despite allegedly showing “signs of impairment,” according to cops.
Wood, however, was detained after refusing to take “a urinalysis test, leading to charges of DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.”
His mugshot showed him with bloodshot eyes before he was released hours later.
Woods has previously been arrested for driving under the influence of prescription pills, including in 2009 when he crashed his car in his neighbor’s yard with sleeping pills in his system.
Then, in 2017, he was arrested for a DUI, with Dilaudid, Vicodin, Xanax, Ambien and THC in his system while in Jupiter, Fla.
At the time, Woods shared he would be getting “professional help” and claimed the meds were to help with his back pain and sleep disorder.
Woods was also involved in a near-fatal crash in 2021 and suffered from a shattered ankle and leg fractures after overturning his car in Los Angeles.
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