Tiger Woods Once Revealed How 9/11 Impacted His Vision for the Future: ‘I Went to My Dad and Said We Need to Change This’

Golfers have substantial earnings, and many regularly donate to the society. Tiger Woods is one of them. The 46-year-old contributes and donates through his foundation, TGR Foundation. Through this foundation, Woods has done an incredible amount of work and touched millions of lives.

Woods started the foundation back in 1996, along with his father, Earl Woods. The basic idea behind setting up the foundation is to support and create community-based learning and to impact the lives of every child involved with the foundation.

Nevertheless, back in 2016, he spoke about how the 9/11 scenario changed the mission of the TGR Foundation. Woods spoke about it on ‘The Late Show’ with Stephen Colbert.

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He said, “The mission initially when the impetus was to try and get more participation in the game of golf, and we tried to do that with junior Junior Golf clinics around the country. When 911 happened. If I was if I died in that, that tragic day, what would the foundation look like? Well, we wouldn’t have anything. So I went to my dad, I said, Dad, we need to change this.”

He added, “I called my dad I said, Dad, I got an idea. Why don’t we come up with a learning center? He says, okay, so I give my dad the directive. He comes back about 10 Days Later says, Okay, I got a deal. Why don’t we create this Learning Center at Dad and Miller where I played high school golf at.” 

Yes, Earl, you probably had the best idea, which has helped millions of children all over the globe.

Tiger Woods claims 82nd PGA Tour title

Tiger won the 2019 ZOZO Championship, claiming his 82md PGA Tour title. With his win at ZOZO, Tiger equaled Woods’s record for most PGA Tour wins with Sam Snead. He won the event with an overall score of 19-under-par. As a result, he won with a three-stroke lead.

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