Originally Posted by
Homer Bailey
Can't believe I forgot this story when I started this thread. A lot of my friends refuse to believe it, and I don't care if you believe it or not, but I SWEAR that every single word of this story is true.
When I was in 7th grade (year 2002), I was attending a practice round at the Memorial tournament, and was attempting to follow Tiger Woods. This was right in the beginning of "Tigermania", and he had an absolutely huge crowd, even though it was a practice round. Anyways, I skipped ahead two holes, and waited in between the 10th green and the 11th tee to try to get an autograph on my program. I waited, and waited. As I waited, the crowd grew around me. Tiger putted out on 10, and began his walk towards 11. I had my blue sharpie out, and my program ready. As Tiger comes, so does EVERYONE else following him. I get bombarded by people trying to get up to the front where I was. People are reaching over top of me, to the left of me, to the right of me. I've never felt so claustrophobic. My blue sharpie cap is off, and my arms are extended out into the walkway. However, at this point, my arms are stuck because so many people are trying to reach around me. I lose my hat in the fray. I can barely even see Tiger as he walks by. But I did feel him.
After the fray, I walk back to the top of the hill behind the tee box, and meet back up with my friends.
"Did you get it? Did you get it?"
"No. But guys, I think I just wrote on Tiger Woods."
"What? What are you talking about?"
Sure enough, we look over at the tee box, and see Tiger and his then-coach Butch Harmon examining a 7"-9" blue streak across his white shirt from his left pectorl to his left bicep. We started dying laughing.
To this day, I do not have a Tiger Woods autograph, but by God, he has mine.
As an epilogue, I told this story to my parents when I got home, and I'm pretty sure they didn't believe me. Later that evening, we were sitting in the kitchen eating dinner, and the news played a short clip from the practice round, that showed Tiger getting his ball out of the hole on the 18th green. Sure enough, as he stood up, the big blue streak showed up on camera as clear as day.