Tiger Woods motivated by Snead, Nicklaus and kids
6 Dec 2013 6:32 AM IST
As Tiger Woods eyes the twilight of a remarkable career, he has his sights on records posted by Jack Nicklaus and Sam Snead and a growing pleasure that his children are starting to understand what he does on the course.
World number one Woods, comfortably the greatest player of his generation, has long targeted the 18 major titles claimed by fellow American Nicklaus and the 82 career victories piled up on the PGA Tour by the sweet-swinging Snead.
Woods, who celebrates his 38th birthday at the end of this month, trails Nicklaus’s record mark by four and Snead’s milestone by three. Yet just as significant for Woods as he contemplates his ‘bucket list’ of future golfing achievements is the burgeoning knowledge of his two children, daughter Sam and son Charlie, for what he does for a living.
‘It’s exciting for me to have my two kids now starting to understand what Daddy does,’ Woods said on Wednesday as he prepared for Thursday’s opening round of the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, which he hosts. ‘It was cool for me this year for the first time to have Charlie there to watch me win.
He understood it for the first time, that Daddy is always in the gym lifting weights to be able to get the ball out of the rough and out the trees. ‘Or that’s how he explains it,’ Woods added with a flash of his trademark smile. Charlie was on site at Firestone Country Club in August.
World number one Woods, comfortably the greatest player of his generation, has long targeted the 18 major titles claimed by fellow American Nicklaus and the 82 career victories piled up on the PGA Tour by the sweet-swinging Snead.
Woods, who celebrates his 38th birthday at the end of this month, trails Nicklaus’s record mark by four and Snead’s milestone by three. Yet just as significant for Woods as he contemplates his ‘bucket list’ of future golfing achievements is the burgeoning knowledge of his two children, daughter Sam and son Charlie, for what he does for a living.
‘It’s exciting for me to have my two kids now starting to understand what Daddy does,’ Woods said on Wednesday as he prepared for Thursday’s opening round of the Northwestern Mutual World Challenge, which he hosts. ‘It was cool for me this year for the first time to have Charlie there to watch me win.
He understood it for the first time, that Daddy is always in the gym lifting weights to be able to get the ball out of the rough and out the trees. ‘Or that’s how he explains it,’ Woods added with a flash of his trademark smile. Charlie was on site at Firestone Country Club in August.
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