In a attenuate and all-encompassing account with Time magazine, Woods aswell aggregate the aforementioned sentiments about his approaching that he did Tuesday at the clash he is hosting in the Bahamas. He still wants to play golf at the accomplished level, admitting he is accommodated that it ability not appear if the assumption accident in his aback doesn’t acquiesce for it.
The world’s above No. 1 abecedarian was interviewed by Canadian golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein at Woods’ new restaurant in Florida. They covered capacity alignment from his greatest joy on the golf advance to chipping sessions with Seve Ballesteros to his family.Woods, who turns 40 on Dec. 30, says he has told 8-year-old Sam and 6-year-old Charlie that his parents don’t reside in the aforementioned abode because “Daddy fabricated some mistakes.”
“I just ambition them to accept afore they get to the Internet age and they log on to something or accept their accompany acquaint them something,” Woods said. “I ambition it to appear from me so that if they appear of age, I’ll just acquaint them the absolute story.
“And so, that’s allotment of the action — ‘Hey, it was my fault, too. I was to blame’ — and so I’m demography action with the kids,” he said. “I’d rather accept it appear from me as the source. And I can acquaint them actually aggregate so they apprehend it from me.”
In the meantime, Woods said he is affirmation to his accouchement that they accept two parents who adulation them.
His alliance burst at the end of 2009 if he was apparent for accepting assorted extramarital affairs, and Elin Nordegren afar him the afterward August. Woods endured leg injuries in 2011, got aback to No. 1 in the apple with eight victories in 2012 and 2013 and has been in a chargeless abatement because of aback injuries since.
He had anaplasty to allay a bankrupt assumption the anniversary afore the 2014 Masters and has had two added procedures in the aforementioned atom over the endure three months.
“One, I don’t ambition to accept addition procedure,” Woods told the magazine. “And two, even if I don’t appear aback and I don’t play again, I still ambition to accept a superior of activity with my kids. I started to lose that with the added surgeries.”
Asked what he would accept done abnormally afore and afterwards the aspersion in his claimed life, Woods said he would accept had a added open, honest accord with his wife.
“Having the accord that I accept now with her is fantastic,” he said. “She’s one of my best friends. We’re able to aces up the phone, and we allocution to anniversary added all the time. We both apperceive that the a lot of important things in our lives are our kids. I ambition I would accept accepted that aback then.”
Woods endure played on Aug. 23 if he angry for 10th and anticipation the affliction he accomplished was from his hip. Instead, it was a ceremony of his aback problems. The ambiguity of his bloom has led to affluence of belief that his career ability be over.
“Put it this way. It’s not what I ambition to accept happen, and it’s not what I’m planning on accepting happen,” Woods said. “But if it does, it does. I’ve accommodated myself to it.”
On added topics:
-Woods acicular out afresh that the blueprint of Jack Nicklaus he kept on his bedchamber bank as a kid had annihilation to do with the almanac 18 majors. It was accompanying to age - the aboriginal time Nicklaus bankrupt 40, bankrupt 80, won his aboriginal golf tournament, his aboriginal accompaniment amateur, his aboriginal U.S. Abecedarian and aboriginal U.S. Open.
“To me, that was important,” he said. “This guy’s the best out there and the best of all time. If I can exhausted anniversary age that he did it, afresh I accept a adventitious at getting the best.”
-He came to apperceive the backward Seve Ballesteros if the Spaniard was alive with Butch Harmon and they would absorb time calm in Houston.
“We’d hit assurance and afresh he’d appearance me abbreviate game, for hours,” Woods said. “Then we’d go play till dark. It was awesome. To see how he could do it, and I could never do it. But I could yield pieces. I’d ask him, but man, I couldn’t do a lot of them. But I accomplished I don’t accept to do a lot of them. I can do it my way.”
-Before the 2008 U.S. Accessible at Torrey Pines, which he won with disconnected knee ligaments and two accent fractures his leg, Woods approved to abrasion a brace for nine holes at his home advance in Southern California. It was his aboriginal time arena golf aback the Masters, and the brace kept him from rotating. He absent eight assurance in nine holes and attempt 54.
“I’m cutting my base off and I said, 'OK, you’re the No. 1 abecedarian in the apple and you just absent eight assurance on a home advance that you could play blindfolded,’ and I attempt a 54. This is traveling to be an absorbing week,'” he said.
-He loves arena abandoned at the Medalist Golf Club in the black because it reminded him of time he spent with his ancestor as a kid. Woods said they would retreat to the far bend of the Seal Navy golf advance in California.
“We’d be on the tee aback there just hitting golf balls, not adage a chat to anniversary other,” he said. “Going out in the evenings brings me aback to that blessed place.”
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