Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas chat throughout a apply spherical forward of the 2024 Masters.
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There are lots of advantages to being associates with Tiger Woods.
Justin Thomas is aware of this effectively.
Take this week, for example. At Tiger’s Hero World Problem occasion within the Bahamas, Thomas primarily has a standing invitation to compete. However the friendship goes each methods. Regardless of having a serious life growth up to now month, Thomas made the flight to the Bahamas to indicate up for Tiger.
Thomas and Woods, who depart 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 superb rapport with Woods’ son Charlie, as seen yearly on the PNC Championship.
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 baby, 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 undoubtedly 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 known as the evening earlier than asking how everyone’s doing. I hung up and I simply checked out Jill and he or she stated, I wager you didn’t assume that was going to occur if you have 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 example of the right way to efficiently stability a professional golf profession and being a dad or mum.
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“He loves his children 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’ve got to your youngsters is so totally different and also you don’t essentially should lose your aggressive drive, and if something it may get much more,” Thomas stated about Woods. “It’s nearly separating the 2, but additionally simply having fun with it and every little thing.”
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 believe he’s simply, , he’s been nice when it comes to — he’s like no, you go spend time with your loved ones, you do that. After I simply need 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 last pairing alongside Keegan Bradley.
