NASSAU, Bahamas – Tiger Woods didn’t much want to talk about his round Saturday in the Hero World Challenge. But he fondly spoke to the…
NASSAU, Bahamas – Tiger Woods didn’t much want to talk about his round Saturday in the Hero World Challenge.
But he fondly spoke to the times he spent with George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States who died Friday. He was 94. Bush was a World War II veteran, an ambassador to China, the CIA director, a vice president – and a golf nut who loved the game and played as much as he could.
“He was fantastic to be around. He was just one of the smartest people I’ve ever been around, and so down to earth,” said Woods, who added he first met Bush when he was a member of the Stanford golf team. “Obviously, his name is synonymous with golf. Being around him for all these years and getting a chance to, you know, be around him at the Presidents Cup and him being involved in it since its inception in ’94, he was such a class act.
“Anyone who’s ever been around him knows how much he loved his golf and how much he supported it and how much we’re going to miss him.”
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Bush embraced the game and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2011 through the Lifetime Achievement category.
