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Tiger Woods at 40: As a kid, I sneaked out to play with dad

By Editor
01 January 2016   |   2:24 am
Earlier this month, Tiger Woods gave perhaps the most candid interview of his career to longtime golf writer Lorne Rubenstein and Time Magazine.
Tiger Woods-Image source, thefrisky

Tiger Woods-Image source, thefrisky

tigerEarlier this month, Tiger Woods gave perhaps the most candid interview of his career to longtime golf writer Lorne Rubenstein and Time Magazine.

Of course, not all of the two-and-a-half hour talk made the final cut, but Rubenstein offered more outtakes from their chat in honor of Woods’ 40th birthday on Wednesday, including a gem from Tiger about sneaking onto the Navy Golf Course as a kid to play with his dad.

“My mom’s dropping me off. I’d hop in the creek, this ditch, and walk on the south side of the ditch, because the clubhouse was up above, so no one could see me,” Woods tells Rubenstein.

“And my dad would get a golf cart, and I’d walk down past one, past two, and I’d lay under the bridge on three, and try and be in total disguise, so I could blend into the environment. I’d put rocks and stuff around me. I hid my golf bag underneath the rocks, totally trying to blend into the environment, and then my dad would say, ‘Hey, you there?’ Yup. Coming up.”

Woods got a lot of birthday wishes from fellow professional golfers as well as every media member, who has ever thought about covering a golf tournament.

He even got some encouragement from Jack Nicklaus.

Yesterday, Woods thanked everyone who sent their thoughts and well wishes his way and said he got a personal concert from Darius Rucker. He also noted what 40 feels like.

Woods has talked pretty openly about what 40 is like. He wrote about it on his website earlier this month.

“My friends keep asking me how it feels to be turning 40 at the end of the month and my response is, ‘It depends when you ask me.’ Mentally, people who know me know I am like a five-year-old.

“Physically, sometimes I feel old and sometimes I feel like a teenager. I don’t like the polar opposites of the two. I’d like to be somewhere in the middle where I feel 40.”

• Culled from www.golfdigest.com

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