Golfer reveals Donald Trump’s brush with death kept Tiger Woods up all night

On July 18, a jet-lagged Tiger Woods took part within the annual Open Championship tournament, which this yr is being held in Scotland.

The golf icon admitted he had trouble sleeping while flying over the ocean following the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump during a political rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.

Woods said that as he flew from Florida to Britain for a golf tournament, he was watching media coverage of the shooting by which a 50-year-old former fire chief was killed and two other men were seriously injured.

“I didn’t accomplish much because I wasn’t in the right state of mind,” Woods said. BBC Sports“It was a long night (because of the attempted bombing) and that’s all we watched the whole time on the way here. I didn’t sleep at all on the plane, and then we just walked onto the golf course.”

Although Woods’ personal relationship with the previous president is unclear, he recently accepted a proposal Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump in 2019.

Woods’ recent comments about Trump have sparked a social media firestorm, with some pointing to the golfer’s cheating scandal that led to the breakdown of his marriage.

“Tiger Woods has no credibility anymore. He’s a drunk cheater who crashes his car,” one person said he wrote on X

“Sounds like Tiger Woods is drinking his usual cocktail of Ambien and bourbon. Tiger cheats on his wife too, so birds of a feather” – commentator added.

Others ignored the golfer’s personal struggles with achieving REM sleep. “Tiger Woods? Adulterer? Cheater? I don’t care– about his dream in a land that never exists? No, I don’t care,” a social media user he wrote.

“Where is his ex-wife??… I need her to go on another trip,” an Instagram user commented.

“One thing about Tiger… he’ll find an EXCUSE. Goodbye boy,” someone wrote within the Instagram comments.

A 3rd Instagram user said Woods should still be having trouble sleeping due to his failed marriage. “Sir…shush…you should be losing sleep over how much those monthly payments are to your ex-wife…Good day Lie-in, I mean tiger.”

Woods’ life has all the time been synonymous with extreme highs and equally drastic lows.

Woods has won the distinguished Masters tournament five times in his storied profession. He is taken into account the best golfer of all time, but his success story is exclusive. Born in California to a sportsman father, Earl Woods, who also served within the U.S. Army. Earl Woods met Kultida “Tida” Woods while he was serving in her native Thailand within the Sixties.

Tiger was a toddler prodigy who dominated a historically white sport. Woods is credited with increasing the recognition of golf within the U.S., especially among the many black community. July 18 ESPN ranked Woods eighth on his list of the 100 best athletes of the twenty first century.

While Woods has been praised for his outstanding performance on the golf course, he has received significant criticism for his personal problems off the sport. In 2009, the tabloid The National Enquirer published an article detailing the golfer’s alleged months-long affair with New York nightclub worker Rachel Uchitel.

He ultimately finalized a high-profile and expensive divorce from Elin Nordegren after latest details emerged a couple of string of mistresses and sex employees Woods allegedly had dealings with. In 2010, Guardian reported that Woods was in a sex addiction treatment center in Mississippi.

In 2017, Wood was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence near his home after police found him asleep in his automobile with the engine running. Woods later pleaded guilty to reckless, ABC news reported.

He’s also struggled with substance abuse up to now. In May, he showed up at his TGR Foundation’s charity poker event in Las Vegas, his face swollen and he seemed a bit dazed as he stuttered a number of words in a video alongside pro poker player Phil Hellmuth and Twitch streamer Ninja.