Tiger Woods and Dwyane Wade.Photo: Golf Digest
Tiger Woodsis very humble about his golf game!
On Tuesday’s episode of Golf Digest’sA Round with Tiger: Celebrity Lessons— a four-part miniseries filmed in February, the day before Woods' accident in Rancho Palos Verdes — the 82-time PGA Tour winner admitted that he doesn’t consider himself to be the Greatest of All Time (GOAT).
The prolific golfer, 45, let out a nervous chuckle before saying, “I’m not the GOAT.”
“Right, see there we go. Let’s get to that,” Wade, 39, said. “Certain people will say, ‘The GOAT! The Greatest of All Time!’ And you will say, ‘Well, I’m not because of…’ you have your reasons.”
Woods resisted the compliment, telling Wade, “No, I’m not there yet.”
Tiger Woods and Dwyane Wade.Golf Digest
The NBA alum continued to press, asking the 41-time European Tour winner, “What will make you be there? When you’re done?”
“I’m not done,” Woods said.
Wade asked, “So only when you’re done is when you The GOAT?”
“I’m not done,” the champion golfer repeated.
Again, Wade asked, “So you can’t be The GOAT while you’re still playing?”
Woods replied for the third time, “I’m not done.”
Earlier in the episode, Wade told cameras ahead of his golf lesson that he was “excited to get an opportunity to be around” Woods, calling him “The GOAT” there.
“You know, that’s the reason I picked up a golf club, because Tiger made it cool,” Wade said. “So I want to learn something from the Greatest of All Time.”
Woods' sentiment about not being professionally done with golf came ahead of his career-threatening crash. On Feb. 23, hestruck a sign in the road’s center dividerand cut through a tree.
The vehicle sustained major damage, and Woods underwent emergency surgery for"significant orthopedic injuries to his right lower extremity." It was the golfer’s 11th major surgery. He did not returnback hometo Florida until mid-March.
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“My prayers go out to him, and hopefully a speedy recovery for him, and hopefully he gets a chance to get back to doing what he loves to do, and that’s playing the game of golf,” he said.
In late May, Woodstold Golf Digestthat recovering from the crash has been “an entirely different animal” from his previous injuries.
Ultimately, the Los Angeles County Sheriff found thatspeed was the primary causeof Woods' single-car rollover crash, but that there were “no signs of impairment” and that the pro golfer would not be cited for the accident.
A Round with Tiger: Celebrity Playing Lessonsairs Tuesdays on Golf Digest through August 10.
source: people.com
