Butch Harmon says he’s never seen Charlie Woods play golf. But he saw his father.
And the legendary instructor knows what he would give Tiger Woods if he brought his son to visit him.
Along with what he would get back.
It all made for a fun exchange during Harmon’s recent appearance on SiriusXM’s “Katrek & Maginnes On Tap.” Woods turned 50 on Dec. 30, and few understand him better than the GOLF Top 100 Teacher Hall of Famer, who guided Woods to eight of his 15 major championship victories.
But Harmon admitted he had not yet seen Woods’ 16-year-old son up close. But it’s understandable that he’s intrigued.
“I don’t know if I would do it full-time. I would definitely do it — my curiosity would make me damn sure do it at least once so I could see the kid,” Harmon said on the show. “I’ve never seen him play. And he’s got the right last name and I’d love to watch it, that’s for sure.”
“I mean, if he asked me to do it, obviously I would be happy to do it.”
Harmon also had a wish, should the meeting ever happen.
He wishes the elder Woods were there.
And why?
“Because we can have some fun with that,” Harmon said on the show. “Because I’d like to screw Tiger and say, you know, when you were that young, you couldn’t do it the way he does it.
And how would Woods respond to that?
“I can’t say it on the phone,” Harmon said.
If you’d like to listen to the interview, SiriusXM’s social media team has shared Charlie Woods’ audio herealong with three other parts (which you can listen to here, here And here.) Interesting among them was a story about Harmon’s first meeting with the elder Woods.
It came in 1993 at the Lochinvar Club in Houston, where Harmon worked as golf director.
“He just lost, I think it was his third round match at Champions in the Amateur,” Harmon said. “And his dad brought him along, and he was hitting balls, and so I said to him, as I do with a lot of young boys, I said, ‘So when you’re playing in tournaments and you absolutely have to hit one during the game, what’s your shape? Do you like to draw it or fade it?’ I’m just trying to get an idea of what he’s thinking. He says, “Oh, damn, I just hit it as hard as I could and found it and hit it again.”
“And I’m like, this is kind of a cocky SOB. But the more I got to know him, that’s how he played when he was a kid. And he was fearless. He was fearless. And you know, one thing – we all know this, that he won six national titles in a row: three juniors, three amateurs – you know, Bobby Jones didn’t do that, Jack [Nicklaus] didn’t. But what you don’t know is that in each of those six finals the match went down to the last hole, and he won them all. This kid had the heart and soul at a young age to figure out I’m going to win. I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but I’m going to do it.
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