Tiger Woods suspension allegations not true, agent says
PGA officials and Tiger Woods’ agent denied Monday that Woods has been suspended by the tour.
In an interview Friday with a Michigan radio station, Dan Olsen, a relative unknown on the Tour, said an exempt player told him that Woods had been suspended, possibly for a failed drug test.
“It’s not testosterone, but it’s something else. I think when it’s all said and done, he’s gonna surpass Lance Armstrong with infamy,” Olsen reportedly said. Olsen, who played only one full season on the PGA Tour in 2004, would not reveal who told him about the alleged suspension.
Ty Votaw, the executive vice president of the PGA Tour, denied Olsen’s claim.
“There is no truth whatsoever to these claims,” Votaw told ESPN. “We categorically deny these allegations.” The Tour almost never comments on disciplinary matters.
Woods was last seen on the course early in February when he withdrew during the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open. On Feb. 11, he said he needed to take a break to deal with the issues in his game.
Olsen, 48, was on a Lansing, Mich., radio station Friday when he talked about Woods and said, “I heard he’s on a month’s suspension … it’s kind of a strong witness. It’s a credible person who is telling me this.”
“I’ll be looked at as just some crazy f—- nobody making accusations about Tiger,” Olsen told ESPN.com.
Olsen also accused Woods of using illegal equipment.
