Tiger Woods noticed the humorous aspect of Rory McIlroy’s cheeky jibe about his age in the course of the Tomorrow’s Golf League conflict on Monday evening.
Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks triumphed in time beyond regulation in a gripping encounter over McIlroy’s Boston Frequent at Palm Seaside Gardens in Florida.
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However McIlroy managed to attain factors on Woods otherwise with a joke on the indoor course.
The Northern Irishman was seen singing ABBA’s Gimme Gimme Gimme in the course of the occasion, though it wasn’t fairly belted out like he did Do not Cease Believin by Journey on the Zurich Basic.
American Woods was a part of the unofficial viewers for McIlroy’s temporary rendition, and the latter could not resist poking enjoyable on the 15-time Main winner.
“Slightly little bit of ABBA… it is like your demographic!” McIlroy cheekily stated to Woods.
“Oh, right here we go,” Woods responded, earlier than McIlroy set free a hyena-like snicker to himself.
There is a 14-year age hole between {the golfing} icons, though it is clear the pair are agency buddies, with McIlroy referring to Woods as one in all his heroes post-match.
McIlroy, who was joined by US Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley and Australian Adam Scott, stated it was ‘superb’ to play towards Woods underneath recent circumstances.
“I’ve shared the course with him many instances, and I have been in a few remaining teams with him, and he has simply as a lot depth on the market tonight as he does when he is attempting to win a serious championship or attempting to complete,” he stated.
“It is superb to go up and to compete towards one in all your heroes.
“That is competitors, on the finish of the day, and we’re all attempting to beat one another as finest we will.”
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And Woods, who incurred a penalty stroke for taking too lengthy over an eight-foot birdie putt to halve the tenth gap towards McIlroy, was delighted with what the match produced.
“It’s so totally different to regular golf. It was positively totally different than once we first performed,” Woods stated.
“That is what we had envisioned for TGL, to have an expertise like this, and I feel we delivered.”