Tiger Woods “Reached Out To Bear Hug Me”: Son Charlie Woods’s Coach Once Revealed Kind Gesture of the Golf Legend

What do you think about Tiger Woods as a person? Well, the opinion might vary from person to person. There have been a lot of instances that describe the 15x major champion as a kind-hearted person. However, his kindness isn’t only limited to the people he meets on professional greens but he also once showed his admiration to his son Charlie’s high school golf coach as well.

The story dates back to 2023 when Golf.com interviewed Toby Harbeck, the head boys’ golf coach and an English teacher at the Benjamin School. While they talked about a lot of things Harbeck also revealed a story where Tiger Woods decided to involve himself with high school golf. Woods used to fill Charlie’s El Campeon yardage book with notes. In the notes, he also mentioned something about layup.

Talking about it Harbeck said “I used to always encourage the kids to lay up at the bottom of the hill. Tiger thought, and it was in the notes, that it’s better to lay up at the top of the hill because there’s a tree that you’d have to go over at the bottom of the hill. Whereas if you’re at the top, you don’t have to go over that tree.” And the head coach follows that. However the golfer also later showed his appreciation for the coach.

It was about a random match where two high school golfers shot 66. Woods was still recovering from ankle surgery despite that he went out and hugged both the kids who shot 66. Later, the team won the state championship and the golfer was extremely happy about it. Harbeck further talked about it saying “He reached out to bear hug me, I’m telling you, he took the breath out of my chest. That man is strong. Real strong.”