Fan
greeted by Tiger at Masters dies
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[April 25, 2018]
Shane Caldwell, a man who had a
dream fulfilled by meeting Tiger Woods before the Masters earlier
this month, died Monday.
He was 52.
After warming up on the driving range prior to the tournament's
opening round, Woods briefly visited with the wheelchair-bound
Caldwell, who was fighting stage 4 lung cancer.
The meeting began with the famous Tiger Woods smile and this
greeting: "Are you Shane?"
Woods and Caldwell briefly chatted and Woods signed his golf glove
and handed it to Caldwell. Woods wished Caldwell the best moving
forward.
"It was pretty emotional," Caldwell told the Amarillo Globe-News.
An avid golfer before becoming ill, the Columbia, S.C., resident
long dreamed of meeting Woods.
His stepdaughter, Jordan Miller, put the possibility into action by
working social media, and word eventually made it to the Tiger Woods
Foundation and also Woods' girlfriend, Erica Herman, and the meeting
was set up.
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"She wanted to do everything she could for her stepdad to meet Tiger
Woods," Renay Caldwell, wife of Shane, told the Globe-News. "She
sent out tweets and she hounded everybody under God's creation. She
is a full-time student and mother. She has spent every waking minute
trying to get people to respond, tweeting ESPN and even one of the
Bachelors."
Miller's efforts paid off -- she termed the idea as "a crazy dream"
-- and that left her stepfather with a stellar day to remember,
putting him "over the moon."
Not to mention scoring a pretty good memento with the golf glove,
one that contained an inspirational message:
"Stay strong!!
Tiger Woods"
--Field Level Media
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