Tiger Woods’s Real Reason for Forming Unlikely Bond With Justin Thomas Comes to Light Tiger Woods' closest friend reveals what the golf legend really craves from his relationships. You won't believe i

A PGA National Junior event, sometime in the late 1980s. Young Tiger Woods emerges from the bathroom wearing thick Coke-bottle glasses. His roommate, Notah Begay, immediately dubs him “Urkel” after the Family Matters character. The skinny kid with allergies didn’t mind one bit. In fact, Begay made sure the entire Stanford team called him Urkel when Woods arrived as a freshman. The nickname stuck until Woods started defeating everyone every week. But here’s the thing: he loved it. He gravitated toward Begay’s playful ribbing. Decades later, that same pattern explains his unlikely bond with Justin Thomas.

“Tiger likes that, and I think that’s why he gravitates toward people who will give him a hard time,” Begay revealed to Trey Wingo on the podcast. “I think that’s really been a nice