{"id":21358,"date":"2025-06-28T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21358\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:40:09","slug":"i-played-golf-with-tiger-woods-his-vanessa-trump-relationship-has-shocked-me-he-is-a-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/21358\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I played golf with Tiger Woods, his Vanessa Trump relationship has shocked me, he is a ghost’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former PGA Tour winner Brian Henninger has revealed that Tiger Woods was a “ghost” behind the scenes who never gave any clues about his wild lifestyle whilst dominating professional golf.<\/p>\n

Henninger, who competed alongside Woods during the American’s peak years in the early 2000s, told The Sun that the 15-time major champion maintained an isolated presence amongst fellow professionals.<\/p>\n

“Tiger Woods is not a person you’re going to go and hang out with,” Henninger said.<\/p>\n

“He’s not eating with you in the lunchroom.”<\/p>\n

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Despite Woods’ pleasant demeanour and thorough preparation – even knowing details about fellow players before meeting them – Henninger explained that Woods remained enigmatic to his peers.<\/p>\n

“Behind the scenes, he was a ghost to most of us. We didn’t really know about his life off the course,” Henninger revealed.<\/p>\n

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Woods’ turbulent personal life included a high-profile divorce from Swedish model Elin Nordegren in 2010 following allegations of multiple affairs, and a 2017 guilty plea for reckless driving after being found passed out in his car with prescription drugs and marijuana in his system.<\/p>\n

The golf legend is now dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr, a development that has surprised Henninger.<\/p>\n

“I was surprised to see Tiger dating Vanessa Trump. Even though in today’s world, nothing surprises me anymore,” Henninger said.<\/p>\n

The former tour professional suggested the relationship likely developed through Florida connections, noting: “But he lives in Florida, so I’m sure he’s interacting with Donald Trump, who owns a few golf courses down there and stuff.”<\/p>\n

Henninger offered frank assessments of several golfing greats, describing Sir Nick Faldo as “arrogant” and labelling Jack Nicklaus a “narcissist”.<\/p>\n

The American also applied the narcissist label to current world number one Scottie Scheffler, though he emphasised this trait was essential to their success.<\/p>\n

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“It takes a narcissistic person and Nicklaus is that person too, by the way, I’ve spent a little bit of time around him. These guys have big egos,” Henninger explained.<\/p>\n

He suggested these personality characteristics were what separated elite players from the rest, noting that Woods’ focused and intimidating presence on the course was part of what made him exceptional.<\/p>\n

“Tiger could be intimidating to some extent. I played with him right at his peak in the early 2000s,” Henninger recalled.<\/p>\n

Henninger drew parallels between Woods and Scheffler, noting their similar ability to compartmentalise and perform under pressure.<\/p>\n

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“They can just turn it on and off. I mean, they get to the golf course and they’re like different human beings,” he said.<\/p>\n

The comparison extends to their achievements, with Henninger observing: “I don’t know all the matrix behind it, but they are very close in terms of how many times they’ve won at a certain age and all the accomplishments.”<\/p>\n

Scheffler’s mental fortitude particularly impressed Henninger, who recalled the golfer’s arrest during a tournament last year.<\/p>\n

“They threw him in jail in the middle of a tournament last year, then he came out and shot 65, who does that?” Henninger marvelled, adding that such resilience was necessary for maintaining the world number one ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former PGA Tour winner Brian Henninger has revealed that Tiger Woods was a “ghost” behind the scenes who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,50,1156,1926,62,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-21358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sgg","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114760097791330818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}