Retired golf pro Brandel Chamblee has urged Tiger Woods to hang up his golf clubs after his shocking arrest for drunk driving.
“Why should he play golf anymore?” the former athlete told Golf Central in an interview 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 limits,” Chamblee, 63, said, referring to the PGA golfer’s past injuries and use of prescription drugs.
Chamblee added: “He has exceeded his physical limits and continues to injure himself and injure himself to the point that he requires surgery.”
“These surgeries and injuries require prescribed pain medication,” he continued. “If you haven’t racked your brain for the past 20 to 30 years, you can connect the dots to pain relief and addiction to painkillers.”
Chamblee stressed that he is not speculating what was in Woods’ system at the time of Friday’s DUI.
“We have to make the facts stand,” he said.
A representative for Woods could not immediately be reached for comment to Page Six.
Woods was arrested Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence after a crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, in which his car overturned.
Police said the PGA golfer’s breathalyzer test came back negative despite allegedly showing “signs of impairment.”
However, Wood refused to submit to a “urine test” and was taken into custody and charged with DUI with criminal damage to property and refusing to submit to a lawful test.
Photos of his face showed him with bloodshot eyes before he was released hours later.
Woods has previously been arrested for driving under the influence of prescription drugs, including in 2009 when he crashed his car into a neighbor’s yard while taking sleeping pills.
Then, in 2017, while in Jupiter, Florida, he was arrested for drunk driving after allegedly ingesting Dilaudid, Vicodin, Xanax, Ambien, and THC.
At the time, Woods revealed he had “professional help” available and claimed the medication would help with his back pain and sleep problems.
Woods was also involved in a near-fatal accident in 2021, sustaining a comminuted fracture of his ankle and leg after flipping his car in Los Angeles.
