Tiger Woods made LIV Golf star ‘put foot in his mouth’ during awkward conversation
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Tiger Woods made LIV Golf star ‘put foot in his mouth’ during awkward conversation
Andy Ogletree will always remember his first encounter with golf legend Tiger Woods, but for all the wrong reasons.
Ogletree was paired with Woods at the 2020 Masters, which had been delayed until November due to the pandemic.
It was a dream pairing for a then-22-year-old Ogletree, who was competing in just his second major.
Woods was also one year removed from his first major victory in eleven years when he shocked the world to win the 2018 Masters.
Safe to say, Ogletree was in for the experience of a lifetime.
However, it wasn’t a physics-defying tee shot or an ice-cold putt from Woods that left a lasting impression on Ogletree.
Instead, it was a rather odd remark from Woods that left Ogletree miffed.
“It was November Masters – no fans, just me and Tiger – and we’d teed off down 10,” Ogletree told the Fairway to Heaven podcast.
“We’d both hit the fairway and I could tell he was walking over towards me and gonna say something to me. He walks over and we had just had a rain delay that morning.
“He was like, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be fun just to get a running start and slide down this hill?’ And I just started laughing. I was like, ‘Man, that was interesting,’ and so I kind of gave him some s*** back, right? And he thought it was hilarious.”
It seemed as if that moment broke the ice between the pair, as Ogletree revealed Woods became ‘super nice’ to him and ‘talked a lot’.
Even Woods’ longtime caddie, Joe Lacava, was ‘pretty helpful’ in telling Ogletree ‘what to do and when to talk’.
Whatever Woods and Lacava told Ogletree, it certainly seemed to work as he made the cut.
Woods did the same, but it proved to be a Masters he won’t want to re-live after the 48-year-old made 10 on the par three 12th hole.
His tee shot landed on the green but rolled back into the water, only for his drop shot to suffer a similar fate.
Woods’ fifth shot then landed in the bunker and his sixth landed back into the water.
He copped a penalty shot from the sand and thankfully landed on the green.
