Woods pulled out of the tournament after hitting his tee shot on the seventh hole at Riviera Country Club. He was taken off the course in a golf cart driven by a tournament official. At one point, Woods put his head in his hands in frustration.
Rob McNamara, Woods’ good friend and executive vice president of TGR Ventures, said in a statement that Woods began suffering flu-like symptoms Thursday night. On Friday morning, they were worse. He was treated by physicians at Riviera
He had a little bit of a fever and that was better during the warm-up,” McNamara said. “But then when he got out there and was walking and playing, he started feeling dizzy. Ultimately, the doctors are saying he’s got potentially some type of flu and that he was dehydrated. He’s been treated with an IV bag and he’s doing much, much better.”
McNamara said Woods’ back, which he had struggled with in Thursday’s opening round, was “fine.”
It was all medical illness, dehydration, which is now the symptoms are reversing themselves now that he’s had an IV,” McNamara said.
Two fire trucks and an ambulance from the Pacific Palisades Fire Department arrived at Riviera just before 2 p.m. PT after a 911 call was made, and were needed because no IVs were available on site, sources told ESPN. First responders spent more than 30 minutes inside before exiting and leaving the property.
