Tiger Woods was on an uneasy flight to Scotland to play in the 2024 British Open after former President Donald Trump suffered an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Woods, 48, was on a flight from Florida to Troon on Saturday to play in this week’s British Open but could not take his eyes off the television coverage of the shooting.
“I didn’t accomplish a lot because I wasn’t in the right mindset,” Woods said. He told BBC Sport.
“It was a long night [because of the assassination attempt] That’s all we saw the whole time we got here.
“I didn’t sleep a thing on the plane and then I got straight to the golf course.”
Woods and Trump were friends before Trump took office, and the two have played golf and dined together.
President Trump awarded Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom in May 2019, one month after he won his final major championship, the Masters.
President Trump was struck in the right ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed by a Secret Service agent following the assassination attempt.
The gunmen opened fire on Trump with an AR-type rifle from the roof of a manufacturing plant about 130 yards away.
The explosives were found in Crooks’ car not far from the rally.
Firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed in the shooting by Crooks.
