David Gilliland came to a realization while he was teammates with Tiger Woods on their high school golf team in Anaheim, California.
“Everyone says, ‘what did you learn?’,” Gilliland tells Express U.S. Sports, “And I say, ‘I learned that I need to go drive race cars or something else besides golf’, because I wasn’t going to be the best at it. And I’m a competitive person.”
He didn’t know exactly where life would lead, but the lessons he learned witnessing one of the greatest athletes of all time during his formative years still stand him in good stead some 35 years later.
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“He was awesome back then, breaking all the records and doing all that,” he recalls. “So proud of what he’s been able to go and do and accomplish…