'Bizarre': Tiger causes storm for 'crass' act

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Tiger Woods has apologised aft helium caused a tempest online for discreetly handing Justin Thomas a tampon aft outdriving his playing spouse astatine the Genesis Invitational.

As the Americans walked disconnected the ninth tee, Woods slipped the tampon into Thomas' hand, with the 29-year-old laughing, past dropping it arsenic some men walked disconnected giggling.

The 47-year-old is playing successful his archetypal competitory PGA Tour lawsuit since missing the chopped astatine The Open successful July.

The incidental drew a mixed effect connected societal media with immoderate criticising the 15-time large champion, stating it was disrespectful toward women.

Woods apologised aft the circular of play, saying it was expected to beryllium a joke.

"It was expected to beryllium each amusive and games, and evidently it hasn't turned retired that way," helium told reporters. "If I offended anybody, it was not the case; it was conscionable friends having fun.

"As I said, if I offended anybody successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form, I'm sorry. It was not intended to beryllium that way. It was conscionable we play pranks connected 1 different each the clip and virally I deliberation this did not travel crossed that way, but betwixt america it was - it's different."

Writing successful USA Today, columnist Christine Brennan, said: "Woods' connection to Thomas was obvious. It has been the go-to enactment of silly, often insecure boys for generations: You play similar a girl.

"What a bizarre happening for a "girl dad" to do. His girl Sam, present 15, grew up playing shot and had conscionable played successful a tourney successful Florida erstwhile she arrived to ticker him triumph the Masters successful 2019.

"... He employed basal misogyny to insult his bully person Thomas, a knee-slapper of a excavation against pistillate athletes: You deed the shot similar a girl!"

Sky Sports presenter Sarah Stirk said it was "crass" and "extremely disappointing".

Speaking connected Sky Sports News, Stirk added: "It was seemingly done successful jest. To maine it was laddy, blokey behaviour, passing him the tampon efficaciously saying: 'I've outdriven you, you're driving the shot similar a woman'.

"[That is] efficaciously the inference of the incidental that happened and that to maine says females, women, are inferior to men.

"Women should not beryllium portrayed arsenic being inferior to men successful immoderate locomotion of beingness and surely connected a sporting landscape."

US lawyer Dr Ann Olivarius tweeted: "See, it's comic due to the fact that feminine hygiene products are INHERENTLY emasculating, truthful erstwhile a antheral makes different antheral interaction a tampon, he's saying 'I americium a bigger and amended antheral than you, because, GROSS, I made you interaction a wrapped Tampax!'."

Golf podcast big Brian Kirschner said: "Truly cannot get implicit the thought of Tiger Woods preparing for his archetypal non-major commencement since 2020 astatine a tourney he's hosting and being similar "oops astir forgot to battalion a tampon to manus to JT erstwhile I deed it past him".

And Julie DiCaro, a lawyer and author, tweeted: "Ugh. All the guys deliberation this is hilarious, but the gag is denigrating women. So played retired and stupid."

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