Cheyenne Woods often felt like a “sideshow” when she first began playing golf.
While she confesses she grew up wanting to be like Tiger and that she even loved it when her junior coach called her “Tigress,” she grew wary of being compared to her famous uncle. She says it “got old” as she got older.
These are among the feelings Cheyenne opened up about in a story she wrote for The Players' Tribune, a website featuring first-person stories directly from professional athletes. (Started by Derek Jeter, it's the website that ran Tiger Woods' chiding response to Dan Jenkins' fictional interview with him.