Hollywood actor Chris Pratt has revealed the time he met {golfing} legend Tiger Woods, sharing what he calls “the perfect story of my life”.
In 2019 Woods began the Genesis Open Celeb Cup, the place Pratt, alongside athletes and entertainers, performed on the Riviera Nation Membership in Southern California.
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It’s the house of the $US20 million occasion the place he returned for the primary time since final years’ British Open after his horror automobile crash.
Nonetheless, he brought about a stir when he positioned a tampon within the hand of enjoying accomplice Justin Thomas on the opening day.
However Pratt, who was showing on the primary episode of Nick Faldo’s YouTube sequence 18 with Sir Nick, revealed certainly one of his first conferences with Woods.
“It should have been the primary one I performed at as a result of I used to be actually nervous,” Pratt started.
“I used to be out on the vary early and simply driving the ball and it was simply going all over the place.
“And periodically, you’ll see me sporting these glasses, I’m type of blind, so I used to be enjoying with a shiny yellow ball and my thought was that I’ll be capable of see it.
“So anyway, they are saying ‘Mr Pratt, your tee time is up’ so I am going up onto the tenth tee — and there’s Tiger Woods.
“He appears to be like at me and goes ‘yellow ball huh?’
“I used to be like ‘oh god’. My intuition as an actor and comedic individual is to self-deprecate and the road than got here to my head was ‘it’s going to be so much simpler to search out within the bushes after I hit it’.
“So as a substitute I stated ‘I don’t have nice eyes so if it’s a white ball, I can’t see it previous 300-yards’.
“And he goes ‘oh, alright then’.
“I used to be an 18-handicap on the time and I line up and certain sufficient it simply occurs to be top-of-the-line, most pure drives of my life. I striped it proper down the center and held the pose in entrance of everyone and Tiger goes ‘18-handicap? Sandbagging motherf**ker’.
“Oh my god, it’s the perfect story of my life.”
It’s important to think about Pratt strutted down the green from there.
For many who don’t know, sandbagging is decreasing expectations so that you give higher than anticipated outcomes.
Pratt stated he’s been “obsessed” with golf previously 5 years — with a few 9-handicap, though he’s by no means damaged 80.
In a earlier video posted to Instagram, Pratt spoke concerning the struggles he’s had together with his improvement as a golfer. “Right here’s me practising 9’ putts over and over obsessively as a result of the one method to get higher is to observe,” Pratt wrote within the caption. “When it’s good, it’s actual good (very hardly ever) however when it’s unhealthy I need to throw my golf equipment off a bridge. “I want I used to be man sufficient to stop golf. “I can’t stop you! “Golf is imply to me. She’s merciless. She’s downright abusive. “However I assume I really like her. I assume that’s love. “I need to love this sport. It drives me loopy. And right here I’m obsessing about it. “Posting about it. Oh, what a idiot you’ve fabricated from me golf.
Pratt is thought for his roles as Star-Lord in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and within the Jurassic World sequence, as properly Parks and Recreation.
Woods was closely criticised for his tampon prank however he’s nonetheless one of many PGA Tour’s largest drawcards.
The 47-year-old will proceed to play on the tour however probably restrict his tournaments to majors.
“I’m not going to play any greater than in all probability the majors and perhaps a pair extra,” he stated.
“That’s it, that’s all my physique will permit me to do. My again the way in which it’s, all of the surgical procedures I had on my again, my leg the way in which it’s, I simply can’t. That’s simply going to be my future.
“So my intent final 12 months was to play in all 4 majors, I acquired three of the 4. Hopefully, this 12 months I can get all 4 and perhaps sprinkle in a couple of right here and there. However that’s it for the remainder of my profession. I do know that and I perceive that. That‘s simply my actuality.”
