Pro Describes What It's Like Playing With Tiger Woods
Austin Cook said playing with Tiger Woods was more nerve-wracking than when he won his maiden PGA Tour title
Austin Cook said playing with Tiger Woods was more nerve-wracking than when he won his maiden PGA Tour title
Pro Describes What It's Like Playing With Tiger Woods
For many of today's current crop of Tour Pros, Tiger Woods has been their idol for their entire lives.
Woods was pretty much the dominant force from 1997 all the way up until 2009 so players in their early and mid 20s will have seen the 14-time major winner at his best growing up.
With Woods' comeback this year, it has given players who have looked up to him for decades the chance to compete with him, and sometimes even get the chance to tee it up with him in competition.
One of them is Austin Cook, winner of last year's RSM Classic, who got the chance to play with Tiger in the final round at The Northern Trust.
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Both players began the day well behind the lead so it would have been just another regular tournament day for Cook, but his 14-time major-winning playing partner added an entirely different pressure.
Cook described what it was like playing with Woods prior to his title defence this week, stating that he was more nervous for that round than during the final round of last year's tournament where he went on to pick up his first PGA Tour title.
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“I was so nervous in that round. I was more nervous than I was on Sunday [at last year's RSM Classic] because I was playing with Tiger,” he said.
“I told my caddie on the first tee, ‘Dude, I haven't been this nervous since I got in my first PGA Tour event.’ I couldn't tell you how that conversation got started, either.”
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Cook told reporters that Woods comes across as just another regular guy.
“He was awesome,” Cook said.
“Honestly, it was like going out with any other guy. 'Hey, where are you from?' All the typical first conversations.”
Austin Cook defends his title this week at Sea Island in Georgia.
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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