Tiger Woods is not OK
Tiger coverage has center around one persistent question for years: Can he play? It becomes incomplete without an honest answer to a prior question—Is he OK?
Something's wrong with Tiger Woods. We don't know the struggle’s precise shape, but it's there. It has been there.
The evidence is not subtle, and it is not new. That is the sad and disconcerting thing, and until it is reckoned with honestly, everything else is secondary. What happened with Friday’s two-vehicle crash in Jupiter Island, Fla.
, and Woods’ subsequent arrest, involved drugs or medication; the Martin County Sheriff said so plainly, because the breathalyzer said 0. 00 and the man crawling out of the overturned SUV appeared lethargic, impaired, somewhere other than fully present. That part we know.
What we also know, and have known for a while, is the context that surrounds it: all the surgeries , a body that has been broken and rebuilt so many times that the pharmaceutical architecture required just to get through a day is complex, possibly dangerous, and for someone with Woods' injury history genuinely hard to escape. Chronic pain and how people manage it are not moral failures. They are medical realities that have unmade careful, disciplined, strong-willed people for as long as the drugs have existed.
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