Collin Morikawa Shares Perfect Reason Why Tiger Woods Would Never Use A Golf Cart During Tournaments
Believe it or not, Tiger Woods has not avoided Father Time. The 48-year-old has also undergone a dozen-plus surgeries over the years and nearly lost his right leg following his car crash in 2021. The golf swing, and even his speed, is still very much there, but it's the walking miles and miles on a golf course that is the biggest struggle these days.
Woods could easily request to use a golf cart during the few tournaments he is playing in these days via a medical exemption, and golf's governing bodies would undoubtedly oblige. If we're being honest, Woods could ask a small helicopter to get around the course and nobody would bat an eye.
The thing is, Woods would never request using a golf cart during PGA Tour events or major championships, and Collin Morikawa thinks it has to do with the big cat's ginormous ego.
"Yeah, but his ego's pretty big, you know, as is all of ours," Morikawa said ahead of this week's Memorial Tournament. "I just think he wants to keep doing it until he can't, and maybe there's something about a golf cart that's just, you know, ain't it. I would be taking a golf cart if they allowed me. I would love to."
Tiger Woods would never use a golf cart. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
While Morikawa is joking, sort of, Woods has actually spoken in the past as to why he'd never use a golf cart in competition.
Woods played college golf at Stanford with Casey Martin, who won a lawsuit against the Tour in the Supreme Court allowing players with a legitimate disability to take a cart in competition. Despite playing alongside Martin, Woods actually voted against it back in 2001.
"My teammate was Casey Martin, and what he did with the ADA, I voted against it," Woods said. "I think [walking] is an integral part of the game at our level, and I will never take a golf cart until it's sanctioned."
Golf carts are sanctioned on PGA Tour Champions, and it's a safe bet that Woods will take advantage of that if he decides to play on the senior tour after turning 50.