Tiger Woods Surprises HBCU Golfers

Imagine hitting balls on the range and THIS guy shows up. Tiger Woods made these HBCU golfers’ dreams come true with an afternoon they’ll never forget, thanks to the folks at Bridgestone.

Meanwhile, APGA rookies Troy Stribling and Joel Basalaine are at the difficult Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass for a milestone event in their careers. How will their games hold up against a brutal test?

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How you Contin this John John so in November they had a little surprise set up for him through Bridgestone Lauren Lauren good to you Laur nice to meet you Bri nice to meet you Bri pis they drove down to Port St Lucy area they thought they were just going down there to play

Some golf for the weekend but the man itself Tiger Woods rolled up on them but you’re neutral H is going to come down more Square internally I’m screaming thanks ta externally Best Day Ever for sure my roles I’m Studio assistant coach at fam here in soft boy where fam practices

My work out with them in the mornings I’ll practice with them in the afternoon so when you’re putting do you feel like you’re hitting this part of the ball talk about your experience when you uh went down to Jupiter to meet tiger what was your like first initial

Thoughts first initial thoughts was you know I got a chance to meet the go biggest thing I took away from meeting tiger was wor e it I’ve always taking the approach that I’m going to get incrementally better each and every day I have another opportunity for me to

Get a little bit better he pretty much put in perspective that he want something you got to go get it I make sure that each and every day I have 1,000 contacts with a club bur down has always been committed to Growing the game of golf they have been instrumental

In my career there’s rotation in there but it’s just main probably couldn’t have accomplished the things that I’ve been able to accomplish without their commitment brought you across the line dumped you under I think the guys took it to heart use what he said as motivation there a

Part of you that believes that you could be like him one day Bridgestone stepping in big they’re starting to open up doors that we never had before at HBC programs their event that they had the Collegiate br own Invitational the winner of the event was able to come here and spend a day at SAR grass we are at TBC SASS and we’re kind of doing a workshop today we won the HBC Invitational at TBC sugar low and that’s how we got here I’m Joe I’m the operations manager at the performance

Center and our goal here is to help people get better at golf regardless of skill level that’s what we do here and we kind of build it from the ground up so we’re happy that you’re here and we’re hoping that we’re going to be able to help you do the

Same we have a tournament in Sunday so I’m going to apply the things are telling me here we’re going to go play the stadium where the players ATT to be honest I’m a really bit nervous you know caddy uh do you have any advice hit it in a

Hole hey we have a great day we played the one of the best courses it was really fun to play it was really good greens to play take take for him yeah just hit the hit the green hit the green soft on the iron shots but really bouncy on the

Chipping really good challenge today to play this course nice well thank you what really matters to me today I have fun with my teammates but I’m always grateful opportunity to play this thank you sir you thank you bridon for supporting us thank you Bron for the opportunity thank you brel m Mah

M all here at fam use driving rains on campus I’m excited for Saw Grass get my foot in the door and maybe win a couple events we’ll get some putts in and then um we’ll have some of the guys do some games with me I’m just excited to have

Finally have a full season on the apj tour hey going to go all right thank you so excited for the first day at TPC you Know so we’re at TVC s grass for the apj practice round kick off of the spring season for the apj this is the first event of the season and hopefully we can get off to a good start we go I’m really thankful for the opportunity from Bron it’s my second

Time playing tips sress I never thought I’d be able to play game today is I mean it’s going to be like reminding myself we played so hard more than the championship Co so I have some experience and good experience actually this C so I’m feeling good about it 179

All appreciate it after r good K good KY I’ll favor the left side all right cool what really matters for me is just to have fun think we got the Jitters out the way for the most part I’m comfortable now comfortable with my swing with the work I put in the

Offseason so goal is just to compete man keep a level head and try to do the best I can it’s little uphill is that it right there rolling like that yeah I mean it comes back from there I’m coming in like full swing you know giving my best shot how at the same

Time and see how it goes you don’t get this many opportunities to play at s grass so just try and lay back have fun enjoy my my dad and my uncle being out here this week there it is I’m so proud of him you know he’s worked really really hard on

This game last year was a really steep learning curve he started midyear only played about 6 months or so I has to get used to the travel the schedule the practice but I think once he got that down over the first two or three tournaments he really honed in and had a

Really successful season now I think he’s finding his Groove thought I hit it well for the most part front nine I think I was picking better targets I don’t think I missed the greed on the front nine I was just able to put myself in spots off the te and then in the greens that was just easier for me to be

Aggressive on got to the back line and started pulling it a little bit trying to fight back couple bad shots down the stretch couple PA holes that I couldn’t make por I made bogey on kind of keep the same game plan I just got to make some better

Swings I played so bad today I’ve actually shot 83 the driver was off the irons were off the pading is off and the cheap thing is off so it’s it was like very hard for me like everything was off today then when I go back to bed just forget about everything today then

Tomorrow is another day start again let’s try again tomorrow I want to shoot some under part day to sure I mean I feel like I’ve been working a lot of things so if I should under part is just going to bring me back my m memory back you know put my

Head straight that’s that’s my goal just need to shoot that number which will give me confidence to you know bring my memories back next on the T from Uganda please welcome Joel Baseline I play 81 today I didn’t play good at all the course is playing so tough the coast is cold and the fairways are kind of like soggy and the greens oh my God they’re pretty fast today so it’s it’s pretty tough shot 79 again fighting the hooks a little

Bit I got to hit more greens be able to score but it’s a tough Golf Course windy conditions today still got to be better you got to be more consistent and you got a lot more work to do to next couple weeks working on a few things in my

Swing but still doesn’t have much of an excuse for today the mindset going into the next few weeks is just I’m going to continue to stay positive try not to get too down on myself it’s the first event got a lot of golf left to be played for

The rest of the season you got to work on even harder now so I got to put the foot on the gas pedal a little bit more right now I’m halfway my rcky season rcky season is hot I’m almost there getting to like a pro level next few months I’m going to go

Walk out more focus on my weaknesses work on the stuff that have like made me play Bad and get everything straight about halfway through my rookie season on the apga tour and I’m just gearing up for these next events coming up in the spring taking what I learned

Here and hopefully uh play well these next few events to kind of get the ball rolling For