The
Encouraging letter Tiger Woods recently
wrote to a young athlete who stutters has been made public, and it's
quite thoughtful and touching. Golf Digest originally reported last month
on former LPGA Tour player Sophie Gustafson mentoring a bullied high
school student who shares her speech disorder. At the request of the
boy's mother, Golf Digest writer Ron Sirak reached out to Woods, who
overcame his stutter as a child. Woods came through with a note of
support, the contents of which were not revealed until Golf Digest
published the letter on Tuesday."I know what it?s like to be different
and to sometimes not fit in. I also stuttered as a child and I would
talk to my dog and he would sit there and listen until he fell asleep,"
Woods wrote. "I also took a class for two years to help me." Toward the
end he urged the boy, Dillon, "to be well and keep fighting.
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