EXCLUSIVE: How visiting Tiger Woods’ house deeply humbled Patrick Cantlay
Just a short rundown of professionals have gone to Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Island, Fla., house, however they generally leave away with incredible stories. That is, as long as they decide to share those accounts.
Rory McIlroy was there in Walk 2021, a little more than a month after Woods was in a close deadly auto crash. McIlroy later said he was in wonder of Woods’ 15 significant prizes, however he was more dazzled by Woods’ reaction in regards to the area of his other non-significant equipment. (” I don’t have the foggiest idea,” Woods told him, when McIlroy asked where every one of his different prizes were. ” Some are with my mother, some are in the office, and some are wherever.”)
“I was driving home, and I was thinking [those major trophies] are all he thought often about,” McIlroy said. ” So the way in which simple must that have felt for him to win all the others?”
Additionally, there is this account from Justin Thomas, who has emerged as one of Woods’ most trusted tour companions. Thomas claims that Tiger asked him to stop by and chip and putt in the backyard the first time he went to Woods’ house, right before a Masters that Woods wasn’t going to play in because of an injury.
“As he’s simply showing me such countless shots around the greens, and openings I will utilize them on [at Augusta] and how to hit different fortification shots and why I can’t do this and why I can’t do that,” Thomas said on GOLF’s Below average Digital broadcast in 2020. ” Furthermore, I was like, ‘Man, that was unfathomable.’ And afterward the following year, I’m like, ‘Hello, let me know as to whether you believe should do some short-game work this week, I’m near.’ He’s like, ‘I’m playing this year.’ I thought, “Yeah, I know?” However, let me know as to whether you need to rehearse.’ He’s like, ‘I’ll see you in Augusta.'” [ [Laughs] Which brings us to Patrick Cantlay, who addressed the media on Wednesday at the Sentry, the season’s opening game. Cantlay was asked how he believes Tour pros prioritize things like top finishes and wins after Scottie Scheffler defeated Jon Rahm to win PGA Tour Player of the Year.
Cantlay replied, “Well, I think it comes down to the individual,” before the normally private professional decided to reveal a little more. I’ll recount to you a story.”
A story? We are in.
“I headed toward Tiger’s home, I remember to talk Ryder Cup after I had won Player of the Year [in 2021], and it seemed like no joking matter for me at the time that I had got a Player of the Year, and they give you this little Jack Nicklaus bronze prize,” Cantlay said. ” So we’re strolling through Tiger’s home and we’re in the storm cellar and he has like, 11 of them arranged right close to one another all toward the edge of the storm cellar — blast, blast, blast, blast, blast, blast, blast. What’s more, I go, ‘Hello, I’m making up for lost time,’ and he took a gander at me and he goes, ‘You got a great deal of work to do.'” [ Laughs]
The lesson of the story here? On the off chance that you get a welcome to Tiger’s home, don’t turn it down.
