Sky Sports presenter slams 'crass' Tiger Woods tampon prank on PGA Tour rival

Sky Sports presenter Sarah Stirk criticised Tiger Woods for handing Justin Thomas a tampon after outdriving his buddy at the Genesis Invitational. 

Sky Sports presenter slams 'crass' Tiger Woods tampon prank on PGA Tour rival
Sky Sports presenter slams 'crass' Tiger Woods tampon prank on PGA Tour…

Sky Sports Golf presenter Sarah Stirk criticised Tiger Woods for his 'sexist prank' on Justin Thomas. 

We're sure you've heard by now that Woods decided to discreetly hand Thomas a tampon after outdriving his buddy on the ninth hole at Riviera. 

The moment came during the 47-year-old's first competitive action on the PGA Tour since missing the cut at last July's Open Championship. 

Rory McIlroy was also in the star-studded three-ball at the elevated Genesis Invitational which has a bumper prize purse of $20m

Woods' prank has drawn a mixed reaction on social media, with some describing the 15-time major champ as immature. 

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Sky Sports presenter slams 'crass' Tiger Woods tampon prank on PGA Tour rival

USA Today columnist Christine Brennan absolutely tore Woods to shreds, writing

"What a bizarre thing for a 'girl dad' to do. His daughter Sam, now 15, grew up playing soccer and had just played in a tournament in Florida when she arrived to watch him win the Masters in 2019.
"He employed basic misogyny to insult his good friend Thomas, a knee-slapper of a dig against female athletes: You hit the ball like a girl!"

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Sky Sports presenter Sarah Stirk also joined in on the chorus of criticism. 

She said:

"My overriding feelings are completely surprised and really disappointed. I'm a female working in sport, I'm passionate and love the game of golf, and think we are all striving for equality.
"We've all seen the massive inroads everyone is doing promoting women's sport, there is more media exposure, increase in participation levels, we want women sport to be on a level playing field with men.
 "I think this incident last night was extremely disappointing and crass to be honest. They are two good friends JT and Tiger Woods, good buddies, play a lot together."

Sky Sports presenter slams 'crass' Tiger Woods tampon prank on PGA Tour rival

Stirk continued: 

"Woods outdrove Thomas, it was seemingly done in jest but to me it was sort of laddy, blokeish behaviour.
"He passed him the tampon and is effectively saying 'look I've outdriven you, you're driving the ball like a woman'.
"This is the inference of the incident that happened and that says females and women are inferior to men."

Woods went on to card an impressive opening round of 3-under 69 on his first non-major since the 2020 ZOZO Championship. 

He thrilled crowds with three finishing birdies. He is yet to publicly comment on his joke.

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