ATiger Woods We saw him a bit tired when he arrived at the Scottish tournament last week and now we know the reason, thanks to the explanations he gave to the British media. Apparently, Woods was told, before leaving to flee to Europe, the news of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania.
The 48-year-old player left Florida on Saturday and did not perform at the desired level on the first day of Royal Throne on Sunday, stayed all night without sleep, to follow how the events of the development of his country around the former president and, also candidate for Casa Blanca. after closely following the events of the former president’s rally in Pennsylvania.
“It wasn’t good because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” Woods said BBC Sport on Tuesday. “It was a long night (for attempted murder) and that’s all we’ve seen the whole time on the way here. I never slept on the flightand we went straight from the airport to the golf course.
No matter who is in office, we should all respect whoever is in office
The fifteen-time tournament champion was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, shortly after his comeback win at the Augusta Masters, and Donald Trump himself presented him with the medal. Since then, The sympathies and friendships between the politician and the athlete are the same. Since then they started playing together and even joined the occasional charity tournament. Asked about the friendship in 2018, he said: “Well, He is the president of the United States“.
“It doesn’t matter who’s in office, you can like them, you can’t like the personality or the politics, but We should respect all those in office.“he added, according to Yahoo Sports.
A complicated time
Tiger Woods in the bunker
she 82-time PGA Tour winner survived a difficult important period, which ended in number 60 in the Masters before missing the cut at the PGA Championship and the US Open.
However, Woods remained strong, showing remarkable determination and foresight play as long as he feels he can winavoiding suggestions from the former world No. 2’s Colin Montgomerie who reiterated that he should retire permanently, to which Tiger responded: “Well, as a former champion, I am exempted until I am 60 years old.. Not Colin. Therefore has no power to make that decision. “I did it,” Woods told reporters, referring to the fact that You get an automatic qualification for the event thanks to his past victories.