{"id":152189,"date":"2022-12-08T22:16:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tiger-woods-dream-playing-partners-are-heartwarming\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:16:59","slug":"tiger-woods-dream-playing-partners-are-heartwarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tiger-woods-dream-playing-partners-are-heartwarming\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods’ dream playing partners are heartwarming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiger Woods and son Charlie in 2021. (Reuters\/Joe Skipper)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

The first time I played golf with my dad, I hit him in the face with a club. (The poor guy clearly wasn’t expecting me to take an over-the-shoulder backswing with a putter.)<\/p>\n

The first time I took my son to play golf, he spent his entire time on the range smoking lil’ drives with a lollipop stick in his mouth and sandals on his feet, looking cooler than you or I ever will.<\/p>\n

Parents and children bond on the golf course in mysterious (and occasionally painful) ways, whether you’re out on a putt-putt carpet or you’re Tiger Woods walking Augusta National with your son.<\/p>\n

I’m not Tiger Woods, and presumably neither are you. His life is incomprehensible to most sports fans, filled with astounding highs and ground-scraping lows, challenges and pressures and privileges most people never have the opportunity to experience. But while promoting this weekend’s installation of The Match, the goofy golf slap-and-giggle go-round that will pair Woods and Rory McIlroy against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas, Woods hit on an eternal, relative truth. Asked what his dream foursome would be, he didn’t hesitate:<\/p>\n

“It wouldn’t be a foursome,” Woods said. “It’d be my dad, myself and [son] Charlie.”<\/p>\n

You can see his pitch-perfect declaration here as part of a hypercaffeinated, frenetically edited clip:<\/p>\n

Golf’s not-so-secret allure is the way it draws generations together. Grandparents and grandchildren can’t exactly share a basketball court or a tennis court without one going very<\/em> easy on the other. Everybody’s too far apart from one another on a baseball field. And Thanksgiving Turkey Bowls don’t exactly allow for meaningful conversation in between trick plays.<\/p>\n

Golf \u2014 along with fishing and chess, if you consider those sports \u2014 is where generational bonds form and grow. Parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren can compete on the same stretch of grass, can walk the same hills and greens, can spend time learning lessons about golf that, if you think about it, aren’t really about golf at all.<\/p>\n