There's still no timetable for Tiger Woods' return to the PGA Tour, but the same cannot be said for his niece, Cheyenne Woods. Appearing on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," the 24-year-old spoke about her past and future in the world of golf.
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"I started playing when I was about six years old and that's when Tiger really hit the scene big, so I was watching him on TV every weekend," Woods said (via Fox News). "I was going to school and telling my friends, 'That's my uncle. My uncle's famous.' I thought it was so cool and that was really my inspiration to get on the course and play."
"Get out there and try and mimic him."
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Much like Tiger, Cheyenne was influenced by Earl Woods, her grandfather. It was his tutelage that eventually led to her future in the LPGA Tour.
"The story goes that I was about two or three years old and I was at my grandfather's garage where Tiger got his start," she added. "I just picked up a club and started swinging, and my grandfather from then thought that I had a future in golf. That I was going to be a superstar, would play LPGA, so he saw me at a very young age and encouraged me to keep going, keep playing golf."
"He was really the dad that pushed me throughout my whole junior career."
Woods' junior career, however, is now a professional one, but the added pressures it brings won't be enough to buckle her.
"The [family] name definitely brings a lot of attention in the game of golf and in sports in general. For me, I grew up with, so I'm used to media attention."
"I'm used to it, but the LPGA is a whole different stage."
Woods will feature at the LPGA's JTBC Founders Cup event in Phoenix on Mar. 16.
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