If there's anyone who knows the power of a letter, it's Tiger Woods. Woods wrote Stanford as a seventh-grader before going on to make history there. 

What Woods did for another young kid recently is a lot cooler.

Ron Sirak recently wrote about a boy who had been been bullied at school and was really struggling with his friendships and life, partly because of a stuttering problem.

Here's the email the boy's mom wrote to Sirak's friend, Sophie Gustafson, which Sirak discussed at Golf Digest:

“Wanted to give you update,” the Mom wrote. “Things had been going well for awhile. He played football for the first time this year, however, he was teased about his stuttering and quit the team. He has really been struggling lately, feeling lonely due to the really does not have any close friends.”

She continued:

“On the week of April 16th, he had a bad week, he had been teased about his stuttering. That evening, he attempted suicide. He yelled downstairs 'Good bye, I love you.' Me and my husband immediately ran upstairs, his bedroom door was locked, we busted down the door and he was sitting on the window and was getting ready to jump. We were able to grab him and keep him from going head first onto the concrete below.”

As somebody with kids, that's as heartbreaking a thing as you could possibly read.

The boy's mom was desperately searching for something to hold on to so she threw Big Cat's name out there.

“He continues to love to watch golf and is still a fan of Tiger,” the Mom wrote. “Is there anyway we could get his story to Tiger and see if he could help find something encouraging for [him] to look forward to?”

Sirak's response? "Yes, I will make certain Tiger knows this boy is a fan."

He did and Big Cat sent the kid a letter that, I have to say, is the most important thing I've heard about Woods in a long time.

Here's to hoping this story has a continual happy ending.

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Tiger Woods makes a difference off the course, too. (Getty Images)
Tiger Woods makes a difference off the course, too. (Getty Images)

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