This previous weekend, Tiger Woods clawed his means again to prominence with an impressive victory on the PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta.
The embattled golfer — who has struggled with accidents and off-the-course points through the years — notched his 80th victory on Sunday, marking his first title in over 5 years. For Atlanta resident Big Boi, Woods’ legacy because the sport’s premier golfer was already entrenched, even earlier than his runaway win.
“Champion,” Big Boi succinctly says when talking on the 14-time main champion to Billboard. “Once a champion, at all times a champion. Like he received the lion coronary heart and it is a ability that he possesses the place if issues do not go a method, he comes proper again. It’s like using bike, to see him get on the market, it is the desire to do it and the desire to win. I adore it.”
Earlier within the week, Big Boi carried out on the Tee Up ATL live performance in mild of the PGA Tour going down in his hometown. Though his stroke is not as masterful as Woods’, Big Boi recollects a number of enjoyable moments he had on the golf course, particularly when he filmed his 2007 comedy, Who’s Your Caddy, starring Faizon Love and Andy Milonakis.
“We had been all amateurs,” says Big Boi. “It was a complete lot of mulligan occurring, ? We had been simply swinging laborious and making an attempt to kill the ball. We had been actually simply clowning, man. I believe we’d have broke some home windows or one thing as a result of we had been actually swinging tremendous laborious.”
With Woods’ gorgeous victory, and Big Boi proving to be a serious draw at this yr’s festivities, the Outkast legend is hoping the PGA Tour will take into account someday making a return again to the ATL. “Atlanta is de facto the hotbed for something that is actually popping proper now from the movies to the tv to the film business and our sports activities groups,” he says. To have the PGA right here, it is solely proper and it is in proper down within the coronary heart of East Atlanta.”