Golf Dreams and Tiger Woods
November 12, 2008 | Author: Paul Sullivan | Filed under: News
This has been my worst golf season ever, little time to practice and poor results on the occasions when I’ve gone out to play. But it has been first rate for my golf writing. I have a piece in today’s New York Times about the founder of the World Series of Golf, Terry Leiweke. It’s a fun piece about a fun betting game – one that essentially applies the rules of Texas Hold ‘Em to golf.
The bigger golf news, though, is I interviewed Tiger Woods outside Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday. I had 15 minutes to ask him whatever I wanted – and fifteen minutes with him is like a day and a half with the president. The story will be on the cover of the February issue of Conde Nast Portfolio so I can’t give anything away. I can, however, reveal two tidbits that will not make it into the story. Tiger often says that he did not want to get into golf course design until he played on every continent and he has done that – except for Antarctica. When he began to say this, I offered to partner with him in the semi-mythological “Antarctica Four Ball” he has referenced. “Sure,” he said, without missing a beat. “I’m a solid 8 these days.” Despite the season ending knee surgery that has kept him from swinging a golf club for five months, I told him I was confident we could still win it.
On another cold weather subject, Tiger and I were talking about the lead designer of his courses, Beau Welling. Wellling’s role is to implement Tiger’s’ designs. I asked, though, if he had been pushing him to take up curling in his free time. (In his spare time, Welling is the president of USA Curling.) “He has tried,” he laughed. “My wife tried to do the same. Being Swedish that’s one of the big sports there.” It’s just as well: no one really wants to see the greatest competitor of all time furiously sweeping a broom in front of a stone sliding along the ice.
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