Tiger Woods reveals the one irritating thing about his 13-year-old son, Charlie… and it may surprise you!
Tiger Woods is currently battling a hostile foreign government over the future of golf, but if you want to know what's really bothering him, it's his 14-year-old son's phone habits.
“I just don't like him staring at his phone all the time,” Woods said of his son Charlie, who he is currently working with at the ongoing PNC Championship in Orlando.
“Put your phone away and just look around,” Woods continued, as quoted by Golf.com. 'That's one of the things I think all parents struggle with: most children no longer look up. Everyone looks down.
'Look around you, the world is so beautiful around you, just look up. But everyone's staring at a screen, and that's how people see life. It drives me crazy sometimes because he's always looking down and there are so many things around you that are so beautiful at the same time.'
Charlie was forced to disconnect from his phone on Saturday as he and his father joined forces in Orlando for the PNC Championship, where Woods' daughter Sam served as caddy. It is Sam's first time caddying for her father.
Charlie Woods makes a putt on the third green as Tiger watches during Saturday's action
Tiger Woods is driven in his cart by his daughter Sam, who also served as his caddie that day
The PNC Championship features a star-studded field of 20 major champions, but the Woods were once again the main attraction, with fans packing the first tee to watch the pair tee off shortly after 8am local time.
Both drives were straight down the middle, with son Charlie showing his impressive length as his play continued to improve.
Sam's presence on the course on Saturday was first noticed on the course when she saw her father practicing for their round.
In a clip posted to social media, the doting daughter can be seen staring at her dad as he plays a shot, before wiping the sweat from his face with a towel attached to his bag.
The first few holes on the course saw Charlie and Sam chatting at the edge of the green as Tiger stepped out, with Charlie even jokingly shushing his sister as their father played his shot.
Meanwhile, the PGA Tour has narrowed its choice of potential investors to a new consortium led by Fenway Sports Group and said it would continue negotiations with Saudi Arabia's national wealth fund in its race to meet the Dec. 31 deadline.
The PGA Tour board – six players, including Woods, and five independent directors – sent an email to players last week to say that Strategic Sports Group was the unanimous choice to continue negotiating a potential partnership on the new PGA Tour Enterprises.
The new for-profit company was at the center of a framework agreement announced June 6 between the PGA Tour, the European tour and the Public Investment Fund, LIV Golf's Saudi financial backer.
“We also expect to continue our negotiations with PIF in the coming weeks,” the board said in the email to the tour's membership. “Please know that while we cannot go into more detail at this time, we are very confident in an eventual, positive outcome for all players and the PGA Tour as a whole.”
Reigning Masters Champion Jon Rahm and LIV Golf Commissioner and CEO Greg Norman
The update came three days after Masters champion Jon Rahm, a consistent voice against the 54-hole, no-cut rival competition for two years, left for LIV Golf in a deal that several reports estimated was in the neighborhood of $500 million.
Strategic Sports Group consists of owners Marc Attanasio (Milwaukee Brewers); Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons); Cohen Private Ventures (New York Mets); Wyc Grousbeck (Boston Celtics); Tom Werner and John Henry (Boston Red Sox); Tom Ricketts (Chicago Cubs); and Marc Lasry (Milwaukee Bucks). Others in the group include Gerry Cardinale, managing partner of RedBird Capital, which owns AC Milan.
Lasry, Blank, Cohen and Werner are also team owners in the TGL league, founded by Woods, who also sits on the PGA Tour board, and Rory McIlroy, who recently left the board.
It was believed to include Randall Stephenson, the retired AT&T chairman who resigned from the PGA Tour board in July over objections to the Saudi Arabia deal.
However, Stephenson wrote to PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan last Tuesday to say he has no interest in Acorn or its proposal, only that he has responded to Acorn's questions about putting together an attractive proposal. The Associated Press has obtained a copy of the letter.