Some dads will do anything to stop their sons beating them in golf, tongue firmly in cheek. For a father, maybe it’s fun to kick the ball away to stop it from going in the hole. For his son, however, this could be heartbreaking, to be denied a legitimate putt.

In a video posted on X by NUCLR GOLF, a young boy, who appears to be eight-year-old Leo Boniface, is seen playing a perfect shot on the fairway and the ball was sauntering nicely towards the hole. Mid-way, however, his golfer father arrives on the scene and kicks the ball away. The boy was livid.

Not a cakewalk

As the father-son moment went viral, netizens spat fire. Mark Payne, a golfer, saw the funny side of it and reacted: “A couple of years and this is me.” But some fans took serious exception to the father’s conduct. “That so mean!” commented a fan. Another fan, Aaron Caracci, posted: “Clown“. Jamie called it “Brutal“.

On a serious note, however, fathers usually don’t make things easy for their budding golfer sons. Tiger Woods’ father didn’t do it either, when the latter had beaten him for the first time at the age of 11.

Earl Woods introduced his son to golf when he was just two years old. The former himself was a talented golfer but lost to an 11-year-old Tiger. It was a tight game and a putt on the 18th hole separated the two. Tiger reacted with a fist pump and then, by his own admission, ran off the green.

A special tactic

“I started coming up, I started pushing him a little bit, and he wasn’t going to let this whipper-snapper get him. The first time I beat my dad I was 11, I was one over through 15 and he was even. I birdied the 16th, we both pared 17, so we were both even par playing on the 18th,” Tiger told the Mirror, as he did a rewind.

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The final stage of the game was tense. “We got to the 18th which is a par five. I hit my ball to about 18 to 20 feet (from the hole), he’s about 15 feet. I hoop it and he missed it,” Tiger had said.

Earl was a Vietnam War veteran and during last year’s Hero World Challenge event, Tiger had spoken about how his father used a Special Forces tactic to prepare him to deal with psychological pressure. Tiger, in turn, has used it to facilitate his talented son Charlie’s progress.

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