NBC made an inexplicable mistake Saturday when delivering the latest on Tiger Woods’ DUI arrest in Florida.
The network opened its coverage of the Texas Children’s Houston Open with an update on Woods, who was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, property damage, and refusing to submit to a lawful test stemming from Friday’s crash. NBC also showed video of Woods’ overturned vehicle.
NBC, however, showed video from Woods’ 2021 crash in California, not the one that occurred Friday.
NBC showed the wrong Tiger Woods crash footage (the 2021 accident) at the studio desk ahead of Texas Children's Houston Open golf coverage.
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The error is quite obvious. Photos that emerged Friday of Woods’ most recent crash showed that his vehicle was turned on its side, but was still on the road, and did not appear to have suffered the amount of damage seen in the video NBC showed. In that crash, Woods’ video had clearly gone off the road entirely.
Presumably, this was an error on NBC’s part, as it would not make much sense for the network to show video from the wrong crash while discussing Woods’ most recent one. That is not the sort of thing one would want to get wrong.
