Tiger Woods teaching son to play golf, jealous of aspects of his swing
One of the best parts of parenthood is sharing common interests with your kids. In the case of 14-time major winner Tiger Woods, he is cultivating his 6-year-old son Charlie’s golf swing and game while he’s rebuilding his.
”He’s got some parts in his swing that I’m trying to do,” Woods said Wednesday with a laugh at the Memorial Tournament. ”It’s a little frustrating at times.”
Woods said he feels more comfortable with the advances in his technique than he did heading into The Players, where he finished T-69 and 15 shots out of the playoff in May.
“We had to do some pretty good work going into the Players,” he said. “But this one’s a little bit easier.”
While he’s working on his own game, Woods is encouraging his son to enjoy the game by employing a tactic his father Earl used when he was younger. Early on, Earl Woods concocted a par for his son on each hole. It wasn’t what the scorecard said, but what Woods realistically thought his son could pull off. As Tiger improved, the par dropped.
So far, even though Charlie is more into soccer, the approach has worked to keep him engaged in golf.
”It’s about them enjoying the attention that it takes to try to get to par,” Woods said. ”What my dad did was genius because it kept me interested. (I thought,) ‘My dad shot 2-over par and I shot 3, and I almost beat him.’ Even though I was making 11 and 12 on holes.”
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