Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas chat throughout a apply spherical forward of the 2024 Masters.
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There are numerous advantages to being buddies with Tiger Woods.
Justin Thomas is aware of this nicely.
Take this week, for example. At Tiger’s Hero World Problem occasion within the Bahamas, Thomas basically has a standing invitation to compete. However the friendship goes each methods. Regardless of having a significant life improvement previously month, Thomas made the flight to the Bahamas to point out up for Tiger.
Thomas and Woods, who go away close to one another in Jupiter, Fla., bonded way back, and have since turn into shut, spending time with one another’s households and enjoying golf collectively once they each are wholesome. Thomas has even constructed a great rapport with Woods’ son Charlie, as seen yearly on the PNC Championship.
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Whereas they’re each a number of major-winning PGA Tour stars, as of two weeks in the past, they share one thing else in frequent: fatherhood.
Thomas and his spouse Jill welcomed into the world their daughter, Molly, the couple’s first youngster, final month. And Tiger was throughout it, checking in with the Thomases earlier than and after the start.
On Wednesday, in his Hero World Problem press convention, Thomas defined that the entire expertise revealed a “new aspect” of Tiger that he hadn’t seen earlier than.
“He’s been unbelievable. I imply, yeah. It’s positively I’ve seen a brand new aspect of him. I imply, it’s simply been actually cool,” Thomas stated. “He’s all the time checking in eager to see how I’m doing, how Jill’s doing, how Molly’s doing. He knew when Jill’s surgical procedure was and he referred to as the evening earlier than asking how all people’s doing. I hung up and I simply checked out Jill and he or she stated, I wager you didn’t suppose that was going to occur whenever you had been rising up. I’m like no, I didn’t.”
Whereas the parenting recommendation will certainly begin flowing from the Woods family over to the Thomases within the coming months and years, for now, Thomas is holding Tiger up for instance of find out how to efficiently steadiness a professional golf profession and being a father or mother.
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“He loves his youngsters a lot and he is aware of how particular household is. He simply is aware of even nonetheless being a competitor, like simply the love you could have on your kids is so completely different and also you don’t essentially should lose your aggressive drive, and if something it might get much more,” Thomas stated about Woods. “It’s nearly separating the 2, but additionally simply having fun with it and the whole lot.”
However greater than something, the primary recommendation Tiger has already doled out on Justin is to verify he appreciates this particular, fleeting expertise in his household’s life, even when it means spending much less time on the cellphone with the 15-time main champion,
“I feel he’s simply, you realize, he’s been nice when it comes to — he’s like no, you go spend time with your loved ones, you do that. Once I simply wish to discuss to him, he’s like no, take all this in, the particular moments or no matter, so he’s been actually, actually cool throughout all of this.”
Thomas tees off for the opening around the Hero on Thursday at 12:25 p.m. ET within the remaining pairing alongside Keegan Bradley.
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