Tiger Woods Is Stepping Away From Golf
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He's come to you live on 106. 7 the fan. |
| 0:03.8 | Probably expected Tiger Woods stepping away from the game of golf to seek treatment. |
| 0:10.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:10.8 | Issued a statement yesterday. |
| 0:12.4 | He said, I know and understand the seriousness of the situation I find myself in today. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health. |
| 0:20.6 | This is necessary in order for me to prioritize time to seek treatment and focus on my health, this is |
| 0:21.0 | necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being and work toward lasting recovery. |
| 0:27.4 | Augusta National also released a statement. |
| 0:29.8 | Augusta National and the Masters fully support Tiger Woods as he focuses on his well-being, |
| 0:35.4 | although Tiger will not be joining us in person next week. His presence will be felt here in Augusta. And behind closed doors, all the do, Fred Ridley and all those guys, they're just breathing a huge side relief. That was Fred Ridley. That it's not going to be a circus during the Masters. Well, I'm sure they told him to stay away. Yeah, there's not going to be the side show of Tiger Woods. And look, he needs to get help. He needs |
| 0:57.2 | to get his life back on track. Like he was found with hydrocodone pills in his pocket after the accident. Like he admitted to take him. He clearly has an issue. He told the cops he took him. right so he he needs to go to rehab get his life together not worry about golf worry about uh living |
| 1:14.2 | worry about golf worry about |
| 1:12.9 | living worry about getting healthy yeah like that should be his only priority yeah if you never |
| 1:20.3 | has to play golf again to to get straight and you know like stay off the prescription drugs what's |
| 1:26.7 | that might be what he has to do what's so interesting and and kind of sad is you know, like, stay off the prescription drugs. What's... That might be what he has to do. |
| 1:28.1 | What's so interesting and kind of sad is, you know, whenever we see him, |
| 1:32.9 | okay, he has a little limp maybe, but he looks so jacked and so good. |
| 1:38.8 | You know, relative... |
| 1:39.4 | We know he's been through a lot, but they say that he was, like, lim limping and I don't know if he was putting that |
| 1:45.2 | on for the police. He may have been selling it. Trying to sell the pain that he's in, |
| 1:50.5 | but they were like, yeah, he's limping and just basically barely getting around. |
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