Tiger Woods Up Close And Personal
Golf Superstar Talks To Ed Bradley About Planning A Family
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Play CBS Video Video Tiger Cares For Kids Golfer Tiger Woods takes Ed Bradley behind the scenes of his after school program -- the "Tiger Woods Learning Center" -- which offers children a hands-on teaching curriculum.
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Video Golfing With Tiger Despite being one of -- if not -- the best golfer on the planet, Tiger Woods explains to Ed Bradley what he still searches for in his game. He also showed off some of his moves for the correspondent.
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Video Tiger Woods Opens Up Tiger Woods took part in a rare interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley. He discussed his family, future plans and his incredible golf game. Bradley shared his insights with Julie Chen.
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Tiger Woods, left, speaking with 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley. (CBS)
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Tiger Woods (CBS)
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Photo Essay Tiger Woods A glance at the career of the golfer who is master of the game
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For Tiger, practice is the key and his work ethic is legendary. He’s up at dawn and can stay out on the course for as long as 14 hours hitting balls again and again and again off the tee, out of the sand, or on the green. It's a never-ending quest for perfection.
"People say that one of your greatest strengths on the course is your imagination. What do they mean by that?" Bradley asked.
"Well, I enjoy creating. I enjoy creating shots," Tiger answered. "I'm trying to hit a little lower, a little higher, a little right to left, a little left to right. I'm always trying to do something. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun. Because sometimes it's boring just hitting a normal golf shot."
Tiger says he does go out sometimes and play just for fun, competing in his imagination against champions. "My favorite time to go out is in the evenings. I still love doing this to this day. Where Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer or Ben Hogan or Sam Snead, whomever I beat. I have, you know, four, five balls down. And, you know, 'Here's Tiger Woods on the 18th hole. He has a chance to win the U.S. Open,' blah, blah, blah…against these great champions."
"So the way kids would play in basketball, going up against Michael Jordan for the championship, you do that at night on the golf course?" Bradley asked.
"Still do. Always will. Because you never lose that - that fun, that passion to compete and live a dream," Tiger said.
It's almost like it's an obsession. "It is. I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf," he says.
It's an addiction that started when Tiger was so young, it's become the stuff of legend. He was born Eldrick Woods in Cypress, Calif. in 1975. His father, Earl, said Tiger was swinging a golf club at nine months, before he could walk. By three, his extraordinary talent was featured on "The Mike Douglas Show," where he and Bob Hope had a putting contest. [Editor's Note: Earl Woods passed away on May 3, 2006.]
From the beginning, Earl Woods guided, nurtured, managed and inspired his child prodigy. Earl, who served as a Green Beret in Vietnam, also nicknamed him Tiger, after a buddy, a lieutenant colonel in the South Vietnamese army who Earl said saved his life.
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