19 Year Old Tiger Woods Found It Difficult To Say “No” to Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley for Certain Things

Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and Tiger Woods have had a unique relationship. The 3 legendary athletes were friends for more than a decade, but after Woods’s public fall in 2009; their friendship has not been the same. In fact, Jordan and Barkley say that Woods just cut them out from his life. But a close friend of Woods said that the legendary golfer found it difficult to say no to these two legends.

Woods, Jordan, and Barkley were really good friends, and the basketball legends used to play golf with him often. They showed a young Tiger how to handle the fame and live life. But after Woods fell from grace, it just stopped. Barkley has stated that he understood what Woods was going through but was disappointed that he wasn’t man enough to tell that he needed to get away from them and cut out his old friends.

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Jordan said that Woods talked to him after several years in 2016, but since then he has not spoken to him as well. Jordan had also stated that Woods cared about what other people thought of him too much.

A close friend of Tiger Woods says the golfer found it hard to say no to Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley

One of the close friends of Woods talks about the relationship between the trio. He said, “It’s just a different perspective, from that of a 30-year-old multimillionaire — that’s been a superstar for quite some time, that’s used to the lifestyle, used to the attention, used to the scrutiny — to that of a 19-year-old that’s just becoming accustomed to it.”

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“Maybe it wasn’t the best situation for Tiger to put himself at the time, but it’s hard to say no to people that you look up to in sports. I don’t know anyone 19 who would say, ‘I don’t really feel like hanging out with Michael Jordan or Charles Barkley.’ Not only are they good guys, but they’re funny, they’re fun and they knew how to live that lifestyle.”

When the trio became friends, Woods was just a young teenager who had just come into the spotlight. Meanwhile, Jordan and Barkley were in the spotlight for decades now and they were in a different space. But they somehow managed to connect and were friends for a decade. We need to wait and see how their friendship pans out in the future.

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