Student at Tiger Woods Learning Center doesn't know who Tiger is
Tiger Woods is more proud of his learning center and foundation than anything he accomplished on the course, he says.
By
Kyle Porter
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1 min read
Believe it or not, Tiger Woods says he's more proud of what he's done with the Tiger Woods Foundation and his learning centers than anything he's done on the golf course. Woods sat down with PGATour.com recently to discuss this.
“Now 20 years later what I’m most proud of is what I have done with the foundation. Excluding my two kids, it’s far bigger than what I have done on the golf course. I didn’t think it would play this big of a role in my life. But 9/11 happened, my dad’s passing, a lot of things happened.”
What happened during that time is that kids started learning more at Woods' educational centers than they did about the man who started them. Here's PGATour.com.
He loves telling the story in which the Anaheim mayor took a group of students for a hike. The mayor asked one of the kids what he was studying. The student replied that it was rocket science, and that he had actually built a rocket and launched it on the range.
“Where did you learn this?” the mayor asked. “The Tiger Woods Learning Center,” replied the student. The mayor then asked him another question. “Do you know who Tiger Woods is?” The answer from the student stunned him. “No.” Tiger loves that answer. The student was focused on what was going on inside the learning center, and not the label on the front of the building.
Regardless of whether you believe Woods, it really is a great story. And it's hard to knock what Woods has accomplished off the course. He gets ripped for so many different things. This should certainly not be one of them. Especially with how much dough Big Cat has handed back (reportedly in the eight figures over the course of his career).
