What pressure is it to be a

golf icon

to kids?

I mean kids who wanna play

and they look up to Tiger Woods

I mean is that a lot of pressure when you play?

No its not but I think it’s exciting

that we are now seeing a younger demographic

come out to the game of golf.

When I played high school golf

golfers were looked down upon

You weren’t cool, "You play golf ?" Oh!

But that’s now changing

and I think what’s facilitated it is obviously my participation

in the game but also I think other athletes

playing the game of golf,

i.e the coolest athlete

that we’ve ever seen in my generation was Michael Jordan.

All he does is play golf!

And kids pick up on that

and they say “hey you know if he’s doing that,

you know maybe I should give it a try”

I think that’s

why you’re seeing so many young kids now playing golf

some of the young kids out at golf tournaments

and on top of that there’s been a big switch

at tour events to cater to families.

Family packages, kids get in free from twelve and under.

We are trying to get more youth involved in the game

and in order to do that lets get them inspired by coming out to Tour events

and I think that’s what’s helped

grow the game of golf at a younger age.

Tell us about the Tiger Woods foundation.

An incredible foundation

that you’ve started, launched for a few years now

and it's going extremely well.

Great work, tell us about it.

Well we’ve taken underserved kids

and given them hope

but also the tools to follow their dreams.

Kids who learn, who go through the programme, they learn

the stem - science, technology, engineering and math.

We’ve seen some amazing results around the country

and they’ve gone on to Harvard, UCLA, SC, CAL.

For a lot of these kids no one in their family has ever gone to college

and now they’re the first ones to ever go,

To me, that’s incredible

and if they wanna go and become a golfer,

so be it we’ll help them in that regard as well

but it’s not the end of all things if you don’t become a golfer.

Golf

was down the list when I was growing up as a kid

it was always school came first.

It's one of the reasons why I went to Stanford

instead of other Universities

it because school always came first

and so we’ve done some amazing things so far

but we’re just getting started on this is now

starting to get rolling.

We’re starting to get some pretty good momentum

so I’m very excited about that.

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