Overview
- During Saturday’s studio show before the Texas Children’s Houston Open third round, NBC ran video from Woods’s 2021 Los Angeles rollover while discussing his new arrest, then Dan Hicks issued an on-air apology later in the telecast.
- The clip shown was from the 2021 crash that left Woods with major leg injuries, which overstated the severity of the recent incident where he was not hurt.
- Woods, who crashed near his Jupiter Island home on Friday, faces charges of DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test after a 0.00 breathalyzer and field sobriety exams that deputies said indicated impairment.
- Viewers blasted the network on social media for misleading coverage, with many calling the error sloppy journalism and accusing the broadcast of inflating the danger of the latest crash.
- The mistake landed during a widely watched $9.9 million PGA Tour event, a setting that could push networks to tighten how they verify archival footage in real time.