British Open announcer stunningly speculates Tiger Woods is on ‘a lot of painkillers’

This golf announcer needed a censor button.

British Open commentator Mark Roe made a startling accusation Thursday when he speculated that Tiger Woods is using “quite a lot of painkillers.”

“You look at the eyes, you gotta think that there’s quite a lot of painkillers being taken to cope with the pain, ya know,” Roe said as part of the event’s featured holes commentary as Woods put his gloves in his pants while walking the course at Royal Troon in Scotland. “Not easy.”

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Regardless of whether Woods is using painkillers to manage his chronic pain, for an announcer to publicly allege such a thing is quite a stunning soundbite.

Add in that it’s being based on how Woods’ eyes looked and it’s even more shocking.

There’s also the seriousness of the topic when it comes to Woods and painkillers, with the golfer having painkillers Hydrocodone and Hydromorphone in his system when police arrested him in May of 2017 on a DUI charge after finding him asleep at the steering wheel, according to NBC .

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The 48-year-old golfer also entered a rehab facility that year for an addiction to prescription pills.

Woods has dealt with various injuries during the latter portion of his career, with close friend Notah Begay III outlining the ailments prior to Woods’ appearance at the Masters in April.

“He’s got zero mobility in that left ankle and really has low-back challenges now, which he knew he was going to have,” Begay III told USA Today.

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Montgomerie, a former world No. 2, hinted at the injuries making golf more of a challenge than fun for Woods before the British Open started Thursday.

“I hope people remember Tiger as Tiger was, the passion and the charismatic aura around him,” Montgomerie told The Times of London. “There is none of that now. At Pinehurst [for the U.S. Open last month] he did not seem to enjoy a single shot and you think, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ He’s coming to Troon and he won’t enjoy it there either.”

While the comments will overshadow Woods’ showing Thursday, he’s off to a rather poor start , finishing with an eight-over par 79.

Woods is just one of the many top golfers struggling in what has already been a wild day , with Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau shooting seven-over par and five-over par, respectively.

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