Tiger Woods showed his true colours in an encounter with a now-LIV Golf star at the Masters in 2020 (Image: Getty)
Andy Ogletree has revealed an amusing conversation with legend Tiger Woods that showcased the superstar’s ‘true’ personality. The 26-year-old is currently making waves on the course with HyFlyers GC, playing alongside Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele and Cameron Tringale.
He joined the Saudi-backed circuit earlier in 2024 after impressing on the last year. However, it was during the 2020 Masters that he first encountered Woods and had a conversation that left him slightly puzzled, reports .
On the Fairway To Heaven podcast, Ogletree said: “It was November Masters – no fans, just me and Tiger – and we’d teed off down 10. We’d both hit the fairway and I could tell he was walking over towards me and gonna say something to me. He walks over and we had just had a rain delay that morning.
“He was like ‘man, wouldn’t it be fun just to get a running start and slide down this hill? ‘ I was like, ‘what? ! ‘ And I just started laughing. I was like, ‘man, that was interesting’, and so I kind of gave him some s*** back right? And he thought that was hilarious.
“From then, on he was super nice to me and talked a lot. Joe Lacava was on the bag for him and he was pretty helpful as well – just kind of telling us, you know, what to do and when to talk and stuff like that. I settled in, played some good golf – made the cut and ended up getting low amateur that week.”
Ogletree continued: “This was the year that Tiger made a 10 on 12, and after you finished they took me to a cabin right beside Butler Cabin – you were able to have your family there and kind of debrief on the week. So we were all in there talking and didn’t really know what was going on, and they take me to Butler Cabin and someone slaps me on the back.
Ogletree has revealed a bemusing conversation with Tiger Woods (Image: Getty Images)
“And I turn around and it’s Tiger and he’s like, ‘congrats man’, and it was really cool. We got to talk and stuff and he was like, ‘how’d it go?’ And I was like golf talk, ‘I missed a few puts and I felt like I should have played better’, whatever, like everyone says right? I was like, ‘how’d it go for you?’ And I was like, ‘oh crap’.
“He was like, ‘oh you haven’t heard?’ So I just completely played it off. I’m like, ‘heard what?’ And he’s like, ‘bro, I made a 10 on 12’. I was like, ‘a 10?!’ He went through every shot – and I’m like, ‘I know what you did, I’ve already seen it on the TV’, but I just completely put my foot in my mouth asked Tiger Woods how he made a 10.”
Woods’ 10-stroke score at Augusta National’s notorious 12th hole sent shockwaves across the golfing world at the time. The mishap began when his eight-iron tee shot found the green only to cruelly roll back into Rae’s Creek.
After taking a drop on the other side, history repeated itself, marking one of his most challenging moments on a professional golf course. Woods’ fifth shot ended up in the back-right bunker of the hole before his sixth skimmed across the green and back into Rae’s Creek. A penalty shot from the sand finally found its way onto the green, with Woods two-putting for 10.
Despite being well out of contention, Woods finished at T38 alongside Lee Westwood and Tony Finau among others with a score of -1.
On the other hand, Ogletree finished at T34 with a score of -2 alongside Adam Scott, Bryson DeChambeau, and Si Woo Kim. In a stark contrast, Dustin Johnson emerged as the winner of the competition that year with an overall score of -20, five strokes under T2 Cameron Smith and Sungjae Im.