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Tiger Woods dumps his painkillers after ONE Shark Tank gummy: ‘It erased 20 years of pain in 30 minutes.’

The 15-time major champion says he threw a cabinet of prescriptions in the trash. The chemist’s website crashed for three hours. CNN readers have hours left at 50% off — if any bottles remain.

Tiger Woods follows through on a driver swing in his signature red Sunday shirt WatchWoods on the gummies · 3:42

Tiger Woods during a practice round this season. He says chronic back pain had made a full 18 holes with his son nearly impossible — until a bottle from a Shark Tank chemist showed up. David Cannon/Getty Images

Forget the polite version. Tiger Woods did not “try a supplement.” He says he flushed two decades of painkillers after a single gummy — and then the internet broke.

An MIT-trained chemist named Sam Malone had just walked off Shark Tank with a $2.5 million feeding frenzy from all five sharks. That almost never happens. Then Woods, a man who does not do infomercials, put his name on Triple Green Farms CBD Gummies and said the sentence that detonated the warehouse:

“I’ve swallowed every pill they shoved at me for 20 years. One gummy. Thirty minutes. My back felt 25. I played 18 with Charlie and I didn’t wince once. I slept the whole night. I’m done with the prescriptions.”

— Tiger Woods, in a video obtained by CNN

Tiger Woods standing with his son Charlie on a golf course

Woods with Charlie. He told CNN that walking a full round together without pain was the moment he stopped calling it a coincidence. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images

They rebuilt his swing. Nobody fixed the pain.

Fusion. Microdiscectomies. The crash. Cortisone. Ice. “Whatever they handed me,” Woods has said, more than once, on camera. The greatest closer in golf history has spent a decade being told to live with it, manage it, inject it, or retire.

He did not retire. He says he found a bottle a Shark Tank chemist built for his own mother — and he is not whispering about it. After the video hit, the company’s site went dark for three hours. The first run vanished in four minutes. The second was gone before dinner.

If your doctor’s best offer is “learn to live with it,” Woods’ message is blunt: stop volunteering.

Shark Tank studio with investors seated on set

The tank. Malone is the first pitcher in show history, producers said, to pull offers from every shark in a single round. They were not being polite. ABC/Christopher Willard

The chemist who refused to “mask it”

Malone’s mother was staring at opioids or giving up. He has a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He says he did not build another candy that hides the alarm while the house keeps burning.

“Pain pills are a mute button. Ours hits the master switch — the endocannabinoid system that runs pain, inflammation, and sleep. We don’t tuck the problem in. We go at the root. That’s why one gummy can feel like 20 years coming off the body.”

— Sam Malone, founder, Triple Green Farms

Woods didn’t get booked. Malone told CNN the champion tracked them down after he tried it. “His note looks like the ones from roofers and grandmothers,” Malone said. “Relief in as little as 30 minutes. I don’t write those subject lines. They do.”

A chemist in a lab coat works with plant extracts

Malone’s lab. Full-spectrum hemp extract, he says — not a watered-down gas-station gummy. Triple Green Farms

WHAT THE SHARKS SAID ONE GUMMY HIT

  • ▸ Lower back pain — gone quiet
  • ▸ Hands and wrists that actually open
  • ▸ Neck and shoulders that unclench
  • ▸ Knees that make it down the stairs
  • ▸ Sleep that lasts the whole night
  • ▸ Mobility back. Stress down.
  • ▸ 100% plant. No fog. No hangover.

Company-reported user outcomes. Not FDA evaluated. Your results may differ. The people who wait usually write us after it sells out.

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The warehouse is losing.

Three hours of downtime. Four minutes to kill the first run. Twelve hours to kill the second. A spokesperson told CNN they are running 24/7 and still bleeding inventory.

“Do not wait because you think this is a marketing line,” the spokesperson said. “U.S. stock at this price is a matter of hours, not days. When it’s gone, the 50% dies with it.”

CNN readers still have a window. It is not a polite window.

They made a 54-year-old mother prove it

Producers pulled a volunteer off the crew — Kathy Rhodes, 54, three kids, 11 years of pain she had stopped talking about. They couldn’t even buy a bottle for two weeks. Sold out. Everywhere they looked.

Kathy Rhodes walking through a shopping mall

Kathy Rhodes. Eleven years. Then 14 days on camera.

DAY 1 — 60 MINUTES IN

“I took two and forgot. An hour later I’m in a mall that usually folds me in half. I was fine. Not high. Not stupid. Fine. For a minute I didn’t have the pain. I actually laughed. Then I got greedy for day two.”

DAY 5 — SHE STOPPED HITTING SNOOZE

“I got out of bed like a person. I slept through the night for the first time in years. I told my sister it was in my head. She told me to shut up and order more before they sold out again.”

DAY 14 — THE PAIN WAS GONE

“Chronic pain. Headaches. That wet-cement feeling in the morning. Gone. I did not think a gummy was going to beat 11 years. I was wrong. I am not going back.”

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Will it work for a regular body?

Woods says he dumped the cabinet after week one. A company-paid lab reported 93% of users felt it inside 30 minutes, and inflammatory nerve markers dropped 62% in three weeks. CNN did not run that study. We are telling you who paid for it. We are also telling you the comment thread is filled with people getting out of trucks, walking malls, and playing nine extra holes.

If you are still “thinking about it,” understand the math: the discount is timed. The bottles are numbered. The people who hesitate email us after the cart says sold out.

Green CBD gummies beside a dark green glass bottle

The gummies. Taste: weak green apple. Effect: the thing people actually write home about. Triple Green Farms

What readers are reporting

A construction worker grimacing from lower-back pain on a job site
“Prescription painkillers for a bad knee for a decade. After a week I stopped reaching for the bottle. I’m not saying I’m 25. I’m saying I finished a shift and drove home without thinking about it.”
Michael R., 58 · construction, Ohio
“Arthritis in the hands. I had quit knitting. I’m back on the sweaters for the grandkids. I told the Tuesday group before I told my doctor, which is probably not the order you’re supposed to do it.”
Susan P., 67 · retired teacher, Iowa
“Pain was a 10 or 12 on a bad day. I’m at a 1 most mornings now. I had been on narcotics long enough to scare myself. This is the first time in 15 years I feel like I can move on purpose.”
Robert Smith · Sioux Falls, S.D.
“Joint pain started fading the first day, which I did not believe. I’m sleeping. I’m not dragging at 3 p.m. That’s the whole review.”
Briana Johnson · St. Cloud, Minn.

Malone’s team says the current 50% off plus free shipping — including the buy-three-get-two bundle — ends tonight. After that, they go back to the regular price, if there is product left to sell.

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