"It’s easy to say Woods should have known better than to get behind the wheel while he’s on pain medicine. That he’s lucky he didn’t hurt himself or, worse, someone else. That he has once again disappointed his children and his fans.
But it’s also too soon. Without knowing what the combination of his medications was, along with the doses and when he took them, it’s impossible to say whether Woods has a problem or truly had a bad reaction.
Because it’s Woods, however, the temptation is to assume the worst. The sex scandal that ruined his marriage and his squeaky clean reputation will color the way he’s viewed forever. If he could make a mistake that big, do something that stupid, of course we’d think he could do something as dumb as driving while intoxicated.
But we don’t know that because we don’t know Woods. We never have."
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