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It looks like things are getting worse
for Tiger before they get better.

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This past week he announced he's stepping
away from professional golf to seek

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treatment and focus on his health.

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This comes as a bit of a surprise since
you would have to compete in professional

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golf in order to step away from it, but
I guess we understand, uh, what he means.

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The only golf he's played recently
was in a losing effort at the

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recent TGL Championship match.

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That gave us hope that we would see
him return to the masters, but those

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dreams have since been quashed.

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Without saying it, it looks like Tiger
has an issue with his medication.

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He is not the first person
in history to struggle with

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painkillers after major surgery.

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And when you take into account all
the surgeries he's had and the fact

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that he cannot do the one thing
that he knows how to do in life, it

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stands to reason that he is developed
a dependency on these medications.

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After seeing the body cam footage
of his arrest, it's easy to say

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that he was in some sort of state.

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Maybe he was shaken from the accident.

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Yes, maybe something else is going
in his life we don't know about.

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Yes, but maybe it's the pills.

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I know we all want the big cat to
return to golf and give us some exciting

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Sundays, but I also think it's time to
realize what is right in front of us.

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And that is a man who is struggling
with something, whether it be pills or

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behind the scenes, personal problems.

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The fact is, this isn't the tiger
we all remember from 2019 and prior.

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Of course I wish him the best as I
would anybody who's going through a

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tough spell in life, we all do, but
I think we have to consider the fact

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that we may never see Tiger compete
in a PGA tour event ever again.

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If golf is causing him to have surgeries
and the surgeries are causing him to take

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pills, then the short answer would be to
quit golf so he can maintain some kind

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of life with his family and friends, and
hopefully stop getting in so many damn

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car accidents before he seriously hurts
himself, or some innocent bystander.

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Do you think we'll ever see him
in a PGA tour event again, or how

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about maybe the Champions tour?

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Just let me know.