Tiger Woods on comeback, mistakes and family

awkward Tiger Woods has a new timeline for his return to the game we sat down yesterday afternoon for a rare interview the first time he is sat down for an hour interview the Charitable Foundation he started with his father celebrating a milestone Tiger Woods Foundation is turning 20 we spoke about his struggle to come back up a series of injuries the fallout from controversies involving his marriage and the one decision that remains his single biggest regret when do you think you'll come back I'm hoping to come back in December you are I mean you believe you can do that you'll be ready something will happen between withdrawing from Safeway and competing there more hard work more hard work here is what's interesting about you more than any golf about any athlete I know it's not just you it's us we can't let you go I mean there's a sense that we never all you care well but there is a sense that we never understood how it was to be so brilliant on a golf course we didn't get how one could be so dominant in a sport we we didn't understand how you could lose that either you've thought about that of course Charlie you know I I miss being out there I miss competing I miss mixing up with the boys and and coming down the stretch like being Tiger Woods I like beating those guys and I that's what I that's why I practice all those hours is to be ready to take on those guys down the stretch and do I miss it absolutely 100% and to be at my age now at 40 years old I'm the first one to admit I can't I can't do the things I used to be able to do but most people can't at my age versus when they were younger I have to find different different ways to go about it you have to find other ways to win yes I do but I'm naturally a tactician even when I was hitting the ball along and blown overtop of bunkers that was the strategy and so I used my mind and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft but that's why the mind is so important I mean you used your mind you learned that you know at you learned that from your father I said you learned mental toughness hmm you learned how to win you still have that oh yeah that says that that part hasn't hasn't left me I I know how to get it done I just need to get into a position to get it done some have said to be Tiger Woods was both a gift and a burden how is it a burden well it's it's a burden in the sense that it's the amount of obligations that I have a tournament the a Menominee that was that was lost you know if you look back the only regret I have in life is not staying another year at Stanford I wish I would have done your only regret s only regret I wish I had of all the things that's happening the whole thing that's all reading all the things I've learned that that's been all the things I've been through are tough yes they've been tough but they've been great for me but I wish I would have gone one more year Stanford would you be the golfer you are without your dad no it would not be the champion that you became without my dad or my mother there's no both of them there's no way no because your mother stood by you instead by him my mother was so supportive and so loyal and so great as a mother that there's no way she was also supportive after Thanksgiving 2009 when you had a public humiliation some would suggest obviously that that humiliation you went through publicly your private light exposed has a lingering effect on your mind and your game I've heard that too I know I look at the fact that yeah I've made a bunch of mistakes but in in the end elin is my ex-wife she's one of my best friends we've had two beautiful kids how do you tell you kids why mommy and daddy or not look together it is because daddy made some mistakes daddy made some some mistakes and I much rather here have them here for me and so set the onset I regret what I did no no I don't I haven't said that I said that everybody makes mistakes and the reason why mommy's living in her house and daddys living in his house is because daddy made mistakes and it's okay you had all the tools but the mental stuff is so important I mean you wanted to win and you wanted to win and you also didn't just want to win you didn't just want to win that tournament you wanted to beat the hell out of everybody who was there that was a mindset that you had you were a killer when it was fun killer when he was fun beating someones even better why is that I don't know I've always had that you know if you win a race you know you want to meet by a second or two sure feels like a lot better if you win it by five or five or six you know striking four or five guys out but you know what throwing no hair is even better do you believe you'll get 18 majors the gals for they know you don't know you've accepted that I've accepted I'm gonna get more in our next hour we'll hear about the memorable dinner Tigers shared with Arnold Palmer and you can see the full conversation tonight of my PBS program he is a warrior now whether he'll be able to come back only he knows he believes so but he also knows he's got a lot of work to do I love that winning is fun but beating someone is always about he's fierce that's why he became what he was he basically says I don't have more ability I don't have more strength I don't have more talent I just worked harder and that's what he believes will get him back be interesting to watch Charlie

Channel: CBS Mornings

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Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 20 2016