{"id":1573213,"date":"2023-06-25T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1573213"},"modified":"2023-06-25T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T22:46:53","slug":"mark-calcavecchia-shares-savage-tiger-woods-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/mark-calcavecchia-shares-savage-tiger-woods-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Calcavecchia Shares a Savage Tiger Woods Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Mark Calcavecchia enjoyed a long and fruitful career in professional golf, winning 13 times on the PGA Tour<\/a>, including the 1989 edition of The Open Championship at Royal Troon, he obviously never made the kind of money that Tiger Woods<\/a> has. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, that's not to say Calcavecchia didn't earn some serious coin during his career, as he racked up more than $24.2 million in on-course earnings. But he apparently never used any of that money to get himself a private jet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger, of course, who's made close to $121 million on the course<\/a> and at least 10 times that much off of it, has long utilized his own aircraft to get around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calcavecchia once tried to hitch a ride on Woods' private plane following a tournament but was promptly denied and forced to go the commercial route. But that's not the end of the story, a story Calcavecchia says got a touch more savage as the day went along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Calcavecchia shares an incredible Tiger Woods story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mark Calcavecchia and Tiger Woods during the 2002 Ryder Cup | Jamie Squire\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recently, four-time PGA Tour winner Bob Estes tweeted<\/a> about some problems he was having with a trip on American Airlines. He remarked how he'd missed a connecting flight for his second trip in a row and suffered through multiple gate changes and a delay. Estes then closed his post with this question: “Anybody feel sorry for me?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is where Mark Calcavecchia told his Tiger Woods story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to Estes' tweet, Calcavecchia sent out a tweet of his own describing a scenario that played out following a tournament in which both he and Woods appeared. Following the event, Calcavecchia requested a ride home in Tiger's private jet. But while the two were pals and lived in the same area, the request was denied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Woods likely had a smooth ride home, Calcavecchia had a rough go of it on his commercial flight as he was forced to sit through a six-hour delay. And when he texted Tiger to give a sarcastic “thanks for the lift home,” Woods responded with two words: “Play better.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Tiger didn't give me a ride home after a tourney and I was in a 6 hour delay, I texted him and said gee thanks for the lift home. I'm in a 6 hour delay and counting. He said "play better". That was it \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\ude33 https:\/\/t.co\/qtuwdg0gxq<\/a><\/p>— Mark Calcavecchia (@MarkCalc) June 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>