But Sky Sports’ Sarah Stirk didn’t agree, insisting Woods should have known better. “My overriding feelings are complete surprise and being honest, really disappointed,” the presenter told Sky Sports News.
“I’m a female working in sport. I’m passionate and love the game of golf. I think we’re all striving for equality and we’ve all seen massive inroads which everybody is doing when it comes to promoting women’s sport, media exposure and increase in participation levels. We want women’s sport to be on a playing field with men and I think this incident was extremely disappointing. I think it was crass to be honest.
“They’re two good friends. JT and Tiger Woods, good buddies, play a lot together. Tiger Woods outdrove Justin Thomas. It was seemingly done in jest. To me it was laddy, blokey behaviour, passing him the tampon effectively saying: ‘I’ve outdriven you’, ‘you’re driving the ball like a women’, effectively the inference of the incident that happened and that to me says females, women are inferior to men.
“‘I’ve outdriven you’, ‘you’ve driven the ball a shorter distance than I have and therefore women are inferior to men’. I think that’s not what we want to be showcasing in the world of sport. It was crass, it was disappointing and I think surprise from my side because he’s playing in the Genesis on the PGA Tour. It’s a tournament that he hosts.”
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