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Tiger Woods wouldn't sign autograph for 10-year-old Johnny Manziel

By Kyle Porter | Golf Writer

Johnny Manziel can't get the starting job either. (Getty Images)
Johnny Manziel can't get the starting job either. (Getty Images)

The least surprising thing I've read all day is that Johnny Manziel was a big Tiger Woods fan growing up.

He told GolfDigest he even had his parents get him a Scotty Cameron putter like Woods had when Manziel was growing up.

"I had everything Tiger," said Manziel. "I wanted to be just like him. I got my dad to get me that Scotty Cameron putter that Tiger used for all of those years. I wanted one exactly like it."

Then he was asked if Tiger really wouldn't sign an autograph for him when he was 10 year old.

"My dad played in a member-guest at Isleworth every year with a friend, and we'd take our family vacation to Orlando. One day I ended up playing with a bunch of kids at the house of Thurman Thomas [Pro Football Hall of Famer], of all people. I think he was friends with some of our family friends.

"Somehow we heard that Tiger was out playing on a nearby course [The Golden Bear Club at Keene's Pointe], so another guy and I ran out there looking for him."

"We saw Tiger on the 16th hole and asked for his autograph, and he said to catch him right after the round. I was sitting about 100 yards from the 18th green, and he drove by in a cart and was pulling his hat really, really low. I remember him saying, 'No autographs today.'"

Tiger being Tiger, basically. But little did he know he was giving a future Heisman trophy winner fodder for a future GolfDigest interview.

Wink of the CBS eye to Devil Ball Golf.

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