Joe House

And so the idea of him, it also is not like public information, whether or not he's driving his own car.

Um, it would have been my serious, uh,

hope that he was mostly not driving his own car after the accident in California.

So I was surprised.

Because, well, no, not out of nowhere, he himself was permitting that question.

The question was being posed to him.

It was asked at Riviera at the tournament that he's the host of, how does it look?

How are you forecasting this?

And he said on television to Jim Nance, if I can go, I'm going to go.

I'm trying.

I'm trying to get my body ready.

And the question I have, and I asked this, Nathan and I discussed this on the Fairway Rolling podcast, is,

Did the drug use, did the opioids, was there an elevated, was that all part and parcel of him trying to get himself ready where he previously up to this point where he was physically unable to communicate?

contemplate trying to do anything competitive golf-wise.

Now that he's in ramp-up mode, does that mean the pain meds need to be elevated?

And did that just sort of change the overall risk paradigm?

Like, oh, I'm going to practice.

That means I have to take the pain meds.

And whatever that cocktail is, it does have this...

narcotic kind of effect.