tiger woods' niece cheyenne woods

tirk · Jun 26, 2009

jeez look at the freaking resemblence. made her debut today and shot a 3 over 75.

shes at wake forest and a kick-ass golfer now on the lpga.

Susan recalls steering the stroller into the eucalyptus trees so that Tiger would not be distracted by Cheyenne’s fussing. According to family lore, that was the week the toddler picked up a golf club in the garage of her grandfather’s house in Orange County and made her first swing.

Seventeen years later, she is taking baby steps toward her dream of following her famous uncle into professional golf. Woods, who will be a sophomore at Wake Forest, received a sponsor’s exemption into the L.P.G.A. event this week in suburban Rochester.

It will be her first tour event, and although she is older than Tiger was when he made his PGA debut as an amateur, she said she never thought she would be testing herself against professionals this young.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Cheyenne Woods said this month after a practice session in Scottsdale, Ariz. She had paid $20 for a bucket of balls and was hitting irons on the range of a resort before driving across town to play 18 holes at a course where she is not charged for her rounds. “I was really excited.”

She found out about the invitation shortly before the end of the academic year as she was leaving her Spanish class and heading for her writing class. She texted her mother and also Tiger, whose father, Earl, had three children, including her father, Earl Jr., during his first marriage.

It never crossed Woods’s mind not to accept the invitation, but her mother, who is divorced from Cheyenne’s father, had reservations. When your last name is Woods and your game is golf, expectations come with the tee time.

Woods has won more than 30 amateur tournaments, and she was the second-lowest scorer for Wake Forest, which finished in a tie for 13th last month at the N.C.A.A. women’s championships. But Susan said she worried that Cheyenne’s credentials would matter less to people than her surname.

“She wanted to do it from the beginning, but my concern was, Is she ready?” Susan said. “I just don’t want her to be crushed.”

Tiger encouraged her to go for it, Woods said, and so did Dianne Dailey, her coach at Wake Forest; and her swing coach in Arizona, Mike LaBauve.

“She’s not scared,” LaBauve said. “She’s not going to go into something like this fearful.”

It is not just her family name that Woods has pressure to uphold. Every time she steps to the tee, she is representing African-Americans, who do not have many role models in women’s golf. According to the L.P.G.A. Web site, three African-Americans have had a tour playing card, none since LaRee Sugg in 2000.

Woods, who bears a striking facial resemblance to Tiger — except for her nose piercing — said, “If I wasn’t ready, then it probably wouldn’t be good for me to go out and not play well.”

Earl Sr. was Cheyenne Woods’s first coach. She says she remembers playing at a tournament in Southern California when she was 8 and receiving a visit from her grandfather. He had her practice her chipping by hitting balls over a suitcase on the floor of her hotel room. She would talk to Earl on the telephone and visit him in the summer in California.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/sports/golf/25cheyenne.html?ref=sports

LaSalleAve · Jun 26, 2009

tirk said: ↑

jeez look at the freaking resemblence. made her debut today and shot a 3 over 75.

shes at wake forest and a kick-ass golfer now on the lpga.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/sports/golf/25cheyenne.html?ref=sports
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is the da brat tat tat as your avatar?

bhelmLSU · Jun 26, 2009

Saw this on Espn yesterday.

She actually hits more fairways off the tee than her Uncle.:hihi:

shane0911 · Jun 26, 2009

LaSalleAve said: ↑

is the da brat tat tat as your avatar?
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See the "your legislature at work" thread in FSA

tirk · Jun 26, 2009

LaSalleAve said: ↑

is the da brat tat tat as your avatar?
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hurricane chris, negro.

islstl · Jun 26, 2009

That's Tiger with a wig on.

Nice one, Tirk.

SabanFan · Jun 26, 2009

islstl said: ↑

That's Tiger with a wig on.

Nice one, Tirk.
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Nope, that's her.

The resemblance is uncanny.

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