Tiger Woods has had a dramatic past few weeks as he had a drop shot controversy at the Masters in April and just last week while winning the Players Championship, he got into a dispute with Sergio Garcia and some of the marshals about a distraction on the second hole.
The incident first began when Sergio Garcia shanked a shot wide on the second hole and afterwards looked and glared at Tiger, who had hit his ball into the crowd and was preparing for his shot when some noise occurred. Garcia later said to reporters that Tiger was not paying attention to what was going on around him and that he pulled a club too soon and caused the crowd to make a noise.
Later on, Tiger said that he heard one of the marshals say that Garcia had hit, which is why he pulled the club. Video showed that Tiger may have pulled the club early, but it was while Garcia was standing over the ball and not in his swing. Following the tournament, which Woods won by a stroke, the marshals came out and said that Woods lied and that they did not say Garcia had hit his shot.
Now on Wednesday, according to ESPN.com, another marshal has come out to say that while Woods has the timing wrong about his club being pulled, he in fact did say that Garcia hit his shot, although he may have been mistaken. The quote exonerates Tiger a bit, as now it is proven that he did hear what he thought he heard. The first two marshals said that Woods lied and said they did not mention the hit by Garcia, but the talk of the newest one puts Tiger in the right.
"It is not true and definitely unfair to Tiger,'' Brian Nedrich told the Times-Union. "That's because I was the one Tiger heard say that Sergio had hit.''
Woods messed up the timing of the events, likely due to all the commotion, but he stressed that he did say that he mentioned Garcia had hit and that Woods did not lie.
"Tiger Woods did not lie," Paczkowski said. "Was there a small mistake in what he remembered? Yes. But I don't think it rises to the level of lying."
