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14 Friday 20th May, 2011

Earl Sr. didn’t coach Cheyenne, ways. strength. Cheyenne’s answer: mental as he did , but he bought her “Hopefully everyone lets her be her,” toughness. clubs of her own by the time Tiger says. “People don’t need to compare “I still think so,” she says. “I feel like she was 6 and set her up with a her to me.” having to separate myself from Tiger, and Tiger expects to coach in Arizona, who would They do, of course, and have since she separate myself from pressure, from the send tapes of her swing to the picked up that first club — one of his old expectations put on me, I feel like I can doting grandfather in ones, as luck (and creation myth) would handle that pretty well.” play at U.S. Open California. have it. Even so, Dailey did her best to shoo Today,Cheyenne is 20, a “Let her create her own life,” Tiger reporters from Wake Forest when junior at Wake Forest who says, “and her own path.” Cheyenne arrived, figuring a media circus will compete in this week’s When she was little, Cheyenne would was not what a freshman needed. NCAA championships in ask her teachers on the first day of school: “It got to be too much,” Dailey says, Bryan, Texas. Do you know who my uncle is? It was cool “and we just had to say,‘This is not about She is ranked 23rd by to be Tiger’s niece. She still felt that way famous relatives. This is about Cheyenne. Golfweek, a long shot to win the when she started playing junior tourna- When she becomes a good golfer, you all women’s individual title the way ments and the cameras followed her every can come back and interview her.’ And Tiger won the men’s for Stanford move. that’s now. She is coming into her own.” Cheyenne Woods in 1996. But when Cheyenne Today,Cheyenne does her best to strike As a freshman, she had a 76.2 scoring won the Atlantic Coast a middle ground: She is proud of her average, fourth on the team. As a sopho- Conference champi- famous uncle but eager to own an identity more, she had a 73.47 scoring average, the onship last apart from a man she does not really know school record for women. And this season all that well. she is at 73.60, best on a team ranked 14th “We talk a little bit here and there,” she in the country entering the NCAA cham- Tiger says. “He’s busy.I’m busy.We have our two pionships. The best NCAA finish for Woods separate lives.” Wake’s women’s team was third in 1995; They have played together, though not Wake’s men’s golf team has won three often. “Obviously,I’d love to play with her national championships. more,” Tiger says. “It has been fun to Cheyenne found her ACC title trou- says he didn’t do any watch her. I have watched her on film, and bling in one respect. When Natalie Sheary more damage to his left leg at the Players it’s been amazing to see her progression won the ACC in 2009 and Michelle Shin Championship and expects to play the over time.” won it in 2010, her teammates got regional U.S. Open next month. Tiger’s face lights up as he talks attention but little nationally. Woods made it only nine holes last about her while walking to his car “They work just as hard as I do,” week at the Players — his shortest tour- after practice before last Cheyenne says. “They should get the same nament ever — when he withdrew after week’s Players recognition.” nine holes because of what he described Championship— from “We understand,” Sheary says, “it’s as a chain reaction of pain from his left which he would bow out not something she controls.” knee to left Achilles and tightening in his early with a knee injury. Sheary,one of Cheyenne’s roommates, calf. He shot 42 on the front nine. “She has sought describes her as stylish — “great clothes” On his Web site Monday, Woods said some advice here and — and loyal — “great friend.” She also he irritated the knee and Achilles with- there,” Tiger says, “but says Cheyenne is surprisingly quiet in out making them worse. He said doctors that obviously is group settings. have advised rest, cold water therapy and between us.” “She doesn’t pipe up in the conversa- soft tissue treatment, which he said he Earl Sr. offered advice tion,” Sheary says, “and then out of already had been receiving. mostly from a distance, except nowhere she throws in a line from a song “Aggravating my injury is very disap- when her family made trips to or a movie, like Anchorman, and it fits pointing,” Woods said. “I’ll do whatever California. On the visit when Cheyenne just perfect, and it’s hilarious. She’s just is necessary to play in the U.S. Open, and was 2, “We came to watch Tiger at the L.A. very,very funny with a bunch of one-lin- I’m hopeful I can be there to compete.” Open,” Susan says. “He was 16. I pushed ers.” her around the course in her little That sense of humor is on display in stroller.” Cheyenne’s bio on the Wake website. That night, Earl Sr. watched her in his Asked for the best golfer she’s ever played garage. Years later, he predicted she’d be with, Cheyenne picks Charles Barkley,the the female Tiger. Basketball Hall of Famer with a notorious Raza claims he “He said that when I was really young, hitch in his swing. too,” Cheyenne says. “So it’s just funny “Yeah, I know, I’m getting a lot of flack how he had this eye for people. He knew for that,” she says, laughing musically. was ‘set up’ when Tiger was young he was going to be “Obviously,Tiger is the best golfer I’ve a superstar. Maybe that’ll be me. ever golfed with. But I had to throw some- Former Pakistan off-spinner Akram “If I just keep working hard — nothing thing different out there.” Raza said on Tuesday that he had been is going to be given to me — I think I have The disappointment question set up after he was arrested over betting the potential.” Tiger, 35, has won 71 PGA tourna- ‘She’s just getting started’ ments, including 14 majors. Still, his last on lucrative Cheyenne, on track to graduate from Tour win came Sept. 13, 2009. Golf fans matches, cricket365.com reported on its Wake Forest a year from now, hopes to play know the import of that time line. website, on Wednesday. on the LPGA tour some day. He hasn’t won since his life imploded The 46-year-old was arrested at the “If you look at the LPGA, there is after a day-after-Thanksgiving 2009 fender- weekend in a police raid on a gang of nobody that looks like me,” she says. bender with a fire hydrant led to a gusher bookmakers reportedly illegally taking “There’s nobody that has my name. There of revelations about infidelities and ulti- bets on IPL matches. is a lot of potential, I feel like, in my name mately to his divorce from Elin Raza, who played nine Tests and 49 and the fact that I am different from other Nordegren, mother of their two young one-dayers for Pakistan between 1989 and people.” children. 1995, was released on bail on Monday but She means her blend of ethnicities: At a remarkable news conference in will have to appear in a Lahore court “My mom is white. My dad comes from my February 2010, Tiger apologized to family grandfather, who was part Native and friends he had “severely disappoint- later this week. American, Chinese, black and white. ed.” “It was a set-up against me,” Raza told That’s me. I’m a mutt.” AFP. “I have nothing to do with the ille- Her mother and father are divorced. Was Cheyenne disappointed in him? gal betting in IPL and visited a friend’s She has two brothers and two non-mutts — “I mean, I feel like it’s the same as any- office where police came and arrested WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — When month, she immediately thought of her Peanut, a 15-year-old basenji, and Moose, a thing,” she says. “I mean, I don’t know. It’s us.” Cheyenne Woods was 2, she plucked a club grandfather, who died in 2006. 3-year-old chocolate Lab. hard to say.That’s just hard. I don’t know.” from a bag, like a sword from a stone, and Police said they acted on a tip-off and “He would be very proud,” she says, “of “It’s fun to see her mature as a person It is the only time she stumbles in an recovered telephones, computers, televi- whacked a golf ball into the netting in her how far I’ve come.” over the years,” Tiger says. “To see her hour-long interview. Cheyenne is a com- grandfather’s garage, where her Uncle sions and a large amount of money. Tiger tweeted his delight: My niece, grow up, starting … in the same garage munications major who hopes to get into “I will appear in the court and fight Eldrick — you may know him as Tiger — Cheyenne, just won the ACC golf title by 7 where I started the game of golf, and to see broadcasting some day.She is uncommon- out my innocence and will not allow my famously took his mythic first cuts, writes shots! That’s awesome, I’m so proud of her. her progress through all of this and to win ly smooth in front of a camera or a digital Erik Brady,of ‘USA Today’. Cheyenne’s father, Earl Jr., is Tiger’s such a big event (as the ACC) is great to recorder. umpiring career to suffer,” said Raza, Cheyenne Woods, niece of Tiger, will half-brother. She even looks a bit like Tiger. see. The question is posed again. who officiates domestic matches in compete in this week’s NCAA champi- “I get that a lot,” she says. “But I don’t see “And she’s just getting started. I know “I feel like I don’t really have a say in Pakistan. onships in Bryan, Texas. it. I feel like I just look like myself.” what she can do, and it’s going to be fun to whether I’m disappointed,” she says at “I will be writing to Pakistan Cheyenne doesn’t remember, but she NCAA Division I women’s golf watch her do it. … She’s just a sweetheart. last. “I mean, we’re not super, super close. Board through my lawyer in a couple of knows all about the family lore. Her moth- championships She is as nice and as humble as anyone It’s not like my dad cheated on my mother. days to explain my point of view and to er, Susan, recalls how Sr. — Small wonder she asserts selfhood. could possibly be.” “But he is a member of my family and prove my innocence.” beguiled by her swing — found a shorter When you golf, and your uncle is you- Cheyenne was highly recruited out of I guess maybe a little bit disappointed, but Raza was one of six players fined club and showed his granddaughter just know-who, comparisons are unfair but Xavier College Prep, a Catholic girls school it doesn’t affect how I see him. And I still how to grip it. after a match-fixing inquiry against inevitable — as much a part of her daily in Phoenix. Wake Forest coach Dianne look up to him. He’s one of the people I Pakistani players between 1998 and 2000. “He saw something in her,” Susan says. landscape as putting greens and open fair- Dailey asked her then for her greatest look up to the most.” beats to qualify for IPL playoffs CHENNAI, India (AP) — “I thought 150 was a good score to Saha, who has been selected for the limit- New Zealand batsman Brendon penultimate over bowled by West Indian ’s unbeaten knock of 46 chase,” Kochi said. ed-overs leg of India’s forthcoming tour McCullum did play responsibly for his 37- allrounder Dwayne Bravo, but Australia helped defending champion Chennai “We had a plan to keep in hands of the West Indies, to prop up the innings ball 33 at the top of the order and Aussie pace bowler Doug Bollinger took charge Super Kings beat Kochi Tuskers by 11 but we accelerated a bit too late.” with his defiant knock. Hodge produced a superb knock to keep in the last over when 19 were still needed. runs and qualify for the IPL playoffs. Chennai put up a challenging score Saha made the most of a stumping the game alive, but the team failed to Off-spinner Saha’s 33-ball knock, which consisted after electing to bat at the MA chance off left-arm spinner Ravindra force the pace against some tight bowl- was the pick of the Chennai bowlers, tak- of three sixes and one four, lifted the Chidambaram Stadium, where it has not Jadeja, when Patel, the other wicketkeep- ing. ing 1-16 in his four overs. home side to a challenging 152-5 on a lost a game in this edition of the tourna- er in the Caribbean-bound team, let him Hodge hit two sixes and a four off the pitch not conducive to strokeplay. Kochi ment. off on seven. could only score 141-5 despite a valiant 51 Australian opener Mike Hussey laid Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, com- from Brad Hodge. the foundation with a steady 32 off 37 ing in down the order at number six, Chennai is top of the league table balls even as the other upper-order bats- failed to get quick runs as he fell for nine. with 18 points from 13 games while Kochi men failed to put up big scores despite “Our home record is something that went out of reckoning. starting well. we can be really proud of,” Dhoni said. Bangalore Royal Challengers has also (19), Murali Vijay (16) “It is a big achievement for us but it does qualified. Indians, Kolkata and Subramaniam Badrinath (13) all suc- not mean that we have to relax.” Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab are in cumbed trying big shots after just set- Kochi missed regular captain and contention for the remaining two places tling in. opener , who had to in the four team playoffs. It was left to wicketkeeper-batsman leave for Sri Lanka’s tour of England.

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