Fans worried Tiger Woods ‘looks so sauced’ in Las Vegas interview
Fans have expressed their concerns for golfing legend Tiger Woods after his appearance in a Las Vegas social media video.
Tiger Woods looks like he needs a nap.
While in Las Vegas for his TGR Foundation’s charity poker night alongside poker legend Phil Hellmuth, fans reacted to a video that Hellmuth posted of a groggy-looking Woods and video game streamer Ninja.
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Woods’ face appeared swollen and he seemed to struggle with a lengthy statement, leading some to believe Vegas may be getting the best of the 15-time major winner, as the New York Post reports.
“I’m so proud of Tiger at the TGR foundation, we’re doing Tiger’s poker night,” Hellmuth said in the video he posted to X. “We’re going to raise a million, maybe $2 million dollars. It’s a really nice event.”
After Hellmuth told Woods how proud he was of him, he asked Woods for his favourite moment involving his charity.
“It’s the stories that the kids come back and tell,” Woods said.
“The first generation to ever go to college. Parents said you’d never go to college, grandparents say you’d never go to college, it’s useless.
“All of a sudden, they’re in college flourishing, going to Stanford, Harvard, MIT and Yale, going to amazing places doing amazing things.
“One of our girls … she’s one of the directors who landed one of the rovers on Mars.”
The clip also included Ninja and Woods joking about Ninja’s golf struggles, with Woods saying it’s “boring” watching him play, and Hellmuth saying how they all “talk s**t” with Woods.
Fans seemed concerned with Woods’ mannerisms during the roughly 90-second clip.
“Damn, I hope Tiger is OK…” an X user responded.
“Tiger looks so sauced!!” another user replied.
“Tiger just lit up,” another speculated.
The all-time great golfer pled guilty in a DUI case in 2017 where he allegedly had five different drugs — Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien and THC, the active ingredient in marijuana — in his system.
Woods accepted a special exemption to play in this month’s US Open at Pinehurst, with his five-year exemption from winning the 2019 Masters expiring.
Woods was out in North Carolina this week playing the course with the tournament teeing off on June 13.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
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