Tiger Woods played the final round at the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego on Sunday unaware his good friend Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash. The news broke while Woods was in the early part of his round, and though it spread around Torrey Pines quickly, caddie Joe LaCava refrained from telling his boss during the round. LaCava finally gave the news to Woods as the pair were walking from the 18th green to the scoring room. “Joey realized that I was locked into trying to (win and) didn’t want to distract me with this type of news,” Woods told reporters. “I didn’t really understand why people in the gallery were saying ‘Do it for Mamba’ but now I understand.”‘Black Mamba’ was Bryant’s nickname.

Source: National Post January 27, 2020 00:22 UTC