When you strive to become a legend in your field, that commitment comes with sacrifices. For Tiger Woods, that sacrifice included time with his kids when they were younger. It sounds like his 16-year-old daughter, Sam Woods, is taking out her frustration with those sacrifices on his chosen obsession.

While promoting his new clothing line, Sun Day Red, on “Today” the 15-time major champion explained why his daughter has “a negative connotation” toward golf. It all leads back to the countless weekends he spent away from home while she was growing up, as the sport was the thing that “took Daddy away from her.”

“I had to pack and I had to leave,” he said. “I had to be gone for weeks. And there’s a negative connotation to it.”

Even though she knows it’s the reason she has such a comfortable life, if your dad spent your entire childhood more focused on golf than you, you’d hate the sport too. Woods stated that her dislike of his profession means they have to bond in other ways.

“So, we develop our own relationship, our own rapport that’s outside of golf,” he said. “We do things that don’t involve golf.”

The billionaire athlete revealed that his relationship with his 15-year-old son Charlie Woods is “very different,” as they do “everything golf related.”

In recent years, Woods and Charlie have partnered at tour events, though he admits that his son sometimes pushes back on his golf advice, because we all know the last thing teenagers want to do is take advice from their parents.

In the conversation’s best moment, Woods revealed that he has his mom to thank for his signature final round red shirt. He explained that she told him to wear red because as a Capricorn it was his “power color.” He wore it for junior golf tournaments and ended up winning.

When he tried to be a rebellious teenager and switch to blue out of “spite,” he didn’t win and went back to red. Since he had so many tournaments, he couldn’t wear it everyday, so he agreed to wear red on the last day of big competitions.

Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee believes Tiger Woods has the most PGA Tour wins of all time despite being tied on 82 with late great Sam Snead.

Why? Well, Chamblee points to the fact that Snead has five team wins counting on his victory record, whereas Woods has none.

Snead, who died aged 89 in 2002, won 82 times on the PGA Tour between 1936 and 1965.

The seven-time major champion also won five times in team events at the following events:

• 1938 Inverness Invitational Fourball with Vic Ghezzi
• 1939 Miami Biltmore International Fourball with Ralph Guldahl
• 1940 Inverness Invitational Fourball with Ralph Guldahl
• 1950 Inverness Invitational Fourball with Jim Ferrier
• 1952 Inverness Invitational Fourball with Jim Ferrier

Woods’ sole WGC-World Cup win alongside David Duval in 2010 did not count as an official win on the PGA Tour, for those casting their minds back to that one.

That just sits as ‘other win’ on Woods’ record.

McIlroy and Lowry revealed earlier this season that they had agreed to team up for the first time together in this year’s Zurich Classic after discussing the subject over a ‘drunken lunch’ over the Christmas period.

The win marked the 25th of McIlroy’s PGA Tour career, bumping him up to T23 on the all-time list, and it brought up the hat-trick for Lowry.

But Chamblee questions whether team events should really even count at all on the PGA Tour, especially given the Zurich Classic consists of both fourballs and foursomes across the four days of competition.

Chamblee tweeted:

“Team wins should have their own category amongst “tour wins”… most golf fans, if not ALL golf fans assume “individual” wins when a player’s total tour wins are named… but Sam Snead has 5 team wins counted amongst his 82 wins while Tiger has ZERO team wins in his 82 wins… so I ask you who has won the most tour events of all time??? It is Tiger.”

Taking a look at the thread to Chamblee’s tweet and it would appear golf fans are divided on such a claim.

Nevertheless, the Zurich Classic is very much an official PGA Tour event and the win count remains whether we all like it or not.

Perhaps the time has come for Woods to arrange a ‘drunken lunch’ with World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and rubber stamp that 83rd outright win on the PGA Tour.

The Masters played out for Tiger Woods in way that epitomizes how the last 10 years have gone for the 15-time major champion. His effort on Thursday and Friday was glimpse of how good he was in the 2018-19 timeframe when he returned from spinal fusion surgery and won three times, including his fifth Masters.

Then Saturday and Sunday was a reminder of the struggles he endured in the 2014-2017 timeframe, when he had three microdiscectomies and was constantly fearing when the back spasms would get him next.

The added burden now, of course, are the injuries he suffered in the 2021 car crash that severely impacted his lower leg, ankle and foot.

At the Masters, Woods only generally talked about his various aches and pains. But it  appeared the issues were more related to his back. All things considered, Woods seemed to walk fine. He was walking strongly during his Sunday round of 77.

But after a birdie at the 5th hole Saturday—a hole he had not birdied since 2013—Woods fell apart. He bogeyed the 6th, made consecutive doubles at the 7th and 8th and then bogeyed the 9th, his approach shot causing him to wince on the follow-through.

He seemed to be O.K. after that other than the fact that his game did not return. His 82 was the highest score he ever shot at the Masters and just the fifth time in his pro career he shot in the 80s.

And it appeared eerily like those times several years ago when Woods might feel good one day with his back and bad the next. It’s unclear what remedies there might be, what relief can be achieved. But Woods did not sound like a guy who is giving up.

“Well, just keep lifting, keep the motor going, keep the body moving, keep getting stronger, keep progressing,” he said. “Hopefully the practice sessions will keep getting longer.”

It was a historic day at The Masters for Tiger Woods, but the golf icon had a moment to forget after an errant shot left a fan out cold.

The 48-year-old Woods broke the record for most consecutive cuts made at the Masters with his 24th on Saturday, the NY Post reports.

But his day also came with a major hiccup after he left a patron at the prestigious out cold following a rogue shot.

Woods sits at 1-over par and still on the outskirts of contention to win his record sixth green jacket.

“It means I have a chance going into the weekend,’’ Woods said. “I’m here. I have a chance to win the golf tournament. I got my two rounds in. I just need some food and some caffeine, and I’ll be good to go.’’

Woods had to complete the final five holes of his first round on Saturday morning because play was suspended due to weather and darkness on Friday.

He closed out an opening-round 1-over-par 73 and then shot even par in his second round.

But drama unfolded during his second round following a wayward shot off the tee. The golf icon then hit his second shot from out of the trees and flying across the fairway before hitting a fan.

His 24th made cut in a row eclipsed the record shared by his good friend Fred Couples, whose streak ran from 1993-2007, and Gary Player, whose went from 1959-82.

“As soon as I’m done with you guys [reporters], I’ll be able to text Freddy and give him a little needle,’’ Woods joked.

Asked to assess his position entering the weekend, Woods, who last won the Masters in 2019, said, “I’m right there. I’m only eight [shots] back as of right now (at the end of his round leader, Bryson DeChambeau, was still on the course and at 7-under).

“I don’t think anyone is going to run off and hide right now, but it’s really bunched. The way the ball is moving on the greens, chip shots are being blown, it’s all you want in a golf course today.’’

Woods had to withdraw from the 2023 Masters on Saturday morning because of physical ailments and cold, rainy conditions.

He’s completed only one 72-hole full-field tournament in the past two years.

“Yeah, I’m tired,’’ he said. “I’ve been out for a while, competing, grinding. It’s been a long 23 holes, a long day. But … I really did some good fighting today, and we’ve got a chance.’’

Woods, when asked before the tournament how proud he is of the consecutive cut streak, said, “It’s consistency, it’s longevity, and it’s an understanding of how to play this golf course. That’s one of the reasons why you see players that are in their 50s and 60s make cuts here, or players in their late 40s have runs at winning the event, just the understanding of how to play it.”

Max Homa, who played the first two rounds with Woods and is 6-under par, said he found it “hard to put into words’’ what it meant being a part of the Woods experience the past two days.

“You feel the crowd on every shot, the anticipation and then the admiration,’’ Homa said. “At times in the last two days, I’ve just looked over and enjoyed myself as a fan … with a slightly better seat.

“Just getting to watch him play the last two days was incredible. He has so much control of his golf ball.’’

Homa called Woods setting the cuts record “some good work,’’ adding, “It was hard out there, and we had to play a lot of golf, so it was impressive to see him do that.’’

The Masters leaderboard

-6 Bryson DeChambeau, Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa

-4 Nicolai Hojgaard